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English
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From a renowned education writer comes a paradigm-shifting examination of the rapidly changing world of college that every parent, student, educator, and investor needs to understand. Over the span of just nine months in 2011 and 2012, the world's most famous universities and high-powered technology entrepreneurs began a race to revolutionize higher education. College courses that had been kept for centuries from all but an elite few were released...
Publisher
Java Films Exclusives
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
Description
There were 13 million university students in 1960. In 2015, their ranks had swollen to nearly 200 million. Universities are operating in the world's most competitive knowledge economy and they are waging a ferocious battle to attract the brightest minds from around the globe. Higher Education delves into the key, decision-making seats where money and politics intermingle, and reveals the deep cultural divide between a lucrative Anglo-Saxon model of...
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English
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The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages...
Publisher
Peterson's
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Forty-ninth edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 1690 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Peterson's® Four-Year Colleges 2019 is a valuable resource that includes information on every accredited four-year undergraduate institution in the U.S. and Canada, more than 2,500 institutions in all. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions written by admissions personnel for over 140 colleges and universities. College-bound students and their parents can access details including campus setting, enrollment, academic programs, entrance difficulty,...
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English
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"The former dean of Yale Law School surveys the full sweep of recent campus controversies to show how these disputes threaten the best of America's intellectual traditions--including democracy itself. In his tenure at Yale, Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest the names of buildings and seen colleagues resign over emails about Halloween costumes. He is no stranger to recent confrontations at American universities. But...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
v, 218 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Description
Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no. That belief is wrong. It's cruel. And in this book, Frank Bruni explains why, giving students...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising--on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
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viii, 312 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents a deeply researched look at the broken state of higher education in America and how we can work towards a new model that works for all Americans.
Bunch presents a deeply researched look at the broken state of higher education in America. He traces the modern history of college in the United States, from the landmark GI Bill and the culture wars of the 60s and 70s, through the explosion in student loan...
10) Debt free degree: the step-by-step guide to getting your kid through college without student loans
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Publisher
Ramsey Press
Language
English
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Description
"What every parent needs to know in order to pay cash for college. Most people believe that student loans are the only way to pay for college. That's why we have a $1.5 trillion student loan crisis in the US and over 40 million Americans are saddled with student loan debt. But there is another way. Debt Free Degree teaches parents how their kid can graduate from college without debt, even if they haven't saved for it. It also shows parents how to...
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Publisher
Regnery Faith
Pub. Date
[2017]
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225 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Description
What has happened to the American spirit? We've gone from "Give me liberty, or give me death!" to "Take care of me, please." Our colleges were once bastions of free speech; now they're bastions of speech codes. Our culture once rewarded independence; now it rewards victimhood. Parents once taught their kids how to fend for themselves; now, any parent who tries may get a visit from the police. In Not a Day Care, Dr. Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A leading African American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy, revealing that leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
Publisher
Railyard Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
As college tuition skyrockets and student debt explodes, a powerful new documentary reveals a nationwide fight for control of the heart, soul and finances of America's public universities. STARVING THE BEAST tells the story of a potent one-two punch roiling public higher education right now: 35 years of systematic defunding and a well financed market oriented reform effort. It's the story of a little known and misunderstood ideological fight, the...
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Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Practical solutions for improving higher education opportunities for disadvantaged students Too many disadvantaged college students in America do not complete their coursework or receive any college credential, while others earn degrees or certificates with little labor market value. Large numbers of these students also struggle to pay for college, and some incur debts that they have difficulty repaying. The authors provide a new review of the causes...
16) No safe spaces
Publisher
Regnery Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 262 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Terrifying violence on college campuses across America. Students lashing out at any speaker brave enough to say something they disagree with. Precious snow flakes demanding "Safe Spaces" to protect them from any idea they haven't heard from their liberal professors. In this book and the accompanying movie, Dennis Prager, Mark Joseph, and Adam Carolla expose the attack on free speech and free thought. It began in the universities, but--fair warning--it's...
17) The stressed years of their lives: helping your kid survive and thrive during their college years
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From two leading child and adolescent mental health experts comes a guide for the parents of every college and college-bound student who want to know what's normal mental health and behavior, what's not, and how to intervene before it's too late. All parenting is in preparation for letting go. However, the paradox of parenting is that the more we learn about late adolescent development and risk, the more frightened we become for our children, and...
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This eye-opening YA narrative nonfiction follows three first-generation college students as they navigate their first year -- and ultimately a global pandemic"--
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thanks to technological advances and increasing levels of education, we have access to more information than ever before. Yet rather than ushering in a new era of enlightenment, the information age has helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1981, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company's financial documents to review. "You've got to be shitting me," he later told the company's CEO. "This place is a gold mine." Over the next four decades, the student loan industry that Sallie Mae and Congress created blew up into a crisis that would submerge a generation of Americans in $1.5 trillion in student debt. In The Debt Trap, Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell tells the...
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