The Resource Fail U. : the false promise of higher education, Charles J. Sykes
Fail U. : the false promise of higher education, Charles J. Sykes
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- Summary
- "The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978 - four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt is $1.3 trillion. Many private universities charge tuitions ranging from $60-70,000 per year. Nearly 2/3 of all college students must borrow to study, and the average student graduates with more than $30,000 in debt. 53% of college graduates under 25 years old are unemployed or underemployed (working part-time or in low-paying jobs that do not require college degrees). Professors - remember them? - rarely teach undergraduates at many major universities. 76% of all university classes are taught by part-time, untenured faculty. In Fail U., Charles J. Sykes asks, "Is it worth it?" With chapters exploring the staggering costs of a college education, the sharp decline in tenured faculty and teaching loads, the explosion of administrator jobs, the grandiose building plans (gyms, food courts, student recreation centers), and the hysteria surrounding the "epidemic" of campus rapes, "triggers," "micro-aggressions," and other forms of alleged trauma, Fail U. concludes by offering a different vision of higher education; one that is affordable, more productive, and better-suited to meet the needs of a diverse range of students. Provocative, persuasive, clear-eyed, and even amusing, Fail U. strips the academic emperor of its clothes to reveal the American university system as it really is - and how it must change"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 278 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- Part I. I told you so
- Introduction: Scenes from a graduation
- 1. Bursting the college bubble
- 2. Déjà vu: ProfScam twenty-eight years later
- Part II. The college bubble
- 3. The (escalating) flight from teaching
- 4. the reality of academic research
- 5. What do students learn (and does anybody care)?
- 6. the college for all delusion
- Part III. Bloat
- 7. Our bloated colleges
- 8. Academia's edifice bloat
- Part IV. Junk scholarship, hoaxes, and scandals
- 9. Does the Emperor have any clothes?
- 10. A scandal reconsidered
- Part V. Victim U. (trigger warning)
- 11. Grievance U.
- 12. Rape U.
- Part VI. Is this time different?
- 13. Time for a bailout?
- 14. Netflix U.
- 15. Smaller, fewer, less
- Isbn
- 9781250071590
- Label
- Fail U. : the false promise of higher education
- Title
- Fail U.
- Title remainder
- the false promise of higher education
- Statement of responsibility
- Charles J. Sykes
- Subject
-
- College costs -- United States
- EDUCATION / Higher
- EDUCATION / Higher
- Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
- Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
- College costs
- Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States
- Educational change
- Educational change -- United States
- United States
- Education, Higher -- Social aspects
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978 - four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt is $1.3 trillion. Many private universities charge tuitions ranging from $60-70,000 per year. Nearly 2/3 of all college students must borrow to study, and the average student graduates with more than $30,000 in debt. 53% of college graduates under 25 years old are unemployed or underemployed (working part-time or in low-paying jobs that do not require college degrees). Professors - remember them? - rarely teach undergraduates at many major universities. 76% of all university classes are taught by part-time, untenured faculty. In Fail U., Charles J. Sykes asks, "Is it worth it?" With chapters exploring the staggering costs of a college education, the sharp decline in tenured faculty and teaching loads, the explosion of administrator jobs, the grandiose building plans (gyms, food courts, student recreation centers), and the hysteria surrounding the "epidemic" of campus rapes, "triggers," "micro-aggressions," and other forms of alleged trauma, Fail U. concludes by offering a different vision of higher education; one that is affordable, more productive, and better-suited to meet the needs of a diverse range of students. Provocative, persuasive, clear-eyed, and even amusing, Fail U. strips the academic emperor of its clothes to reveal the American university system as it really is - and how it must change"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sykes, Charles J
- Dewey number
- 378/.010973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- LA227.4
- LC item number
- .S95 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Education, Higher
- Education, Higher
- College costs
- Educational change
- EDUCATION / Higher
- College costs
- Education, Higher
- Education, Higher
- Educational change
- United States
- EDUCATION / Higher
- EDUCATION / Higher
- Label
- Fail U. : the false promise of higher education, Charles J. Sykes
- Note
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I. I told you so -- Introduction: Scenes from a graduation -- 1. Bursting the college bubble -- 2. Déjà vu: ProfScam twenty-eight years later -- Part II. The college bubble -- 3. The (escalating) flight from teaching -- 4. the reality of academic research -- 5. What do students learn (and does anybody care)? -- 6. the college for all delusion -- Part III. Bloat -- 7. Our bloated colleges -- 8. Academia's edifice bloat -- Part IV. Junk scholarship, hoaxes, and scandals -- 9. Does the Emperor have any clothes? -- 10. A scandal reconsidered -- Part V. Victim U. (trigger warning) -- 11. Grievance U. -- 12. Rape U. -- Part VI. Is this time different? -- 13. Time for a bailout? -- 14. Netflix U. -- 15. Smaller, fewer, less
- Control code
- ocn918994696
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 278 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250071590
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2016003175
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781250071590
- (OCoLC)918994696
- Label
- Fail U. : the false promise of higher education, Charles J. Sykes
- Note
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I. I told you so -- Introduction: Scenes from a graduation -- 1. Bursting the college bubble -- 2. Déjà vu: ProfScam twenty-eight years later -- Part II. The college bubble -- 3. The (escalating) flight from teaching -- 4. the reality of academic research -- 5. What do students learn (and does anybody care)? -- 6. the college for all delusion -- Part III. Bloat -- 7. Our bloated colleges -- 8. Academia's edifice bloat -- Part IV. Junk scholarship, hoaxes, and scandals -- 9. Does the Emperor have any clothes? -- 10. A scandal reconsidered -- Part V. Victim U. (trigger warning) -- 11. Grievance U. -- 12. Rape U. -- Part VI. Is this time different? -- 13. Time for a bailout? -- 14. Netflix U. -- 15. Smaller, fewer, less
- Control code
- ocn918994696
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 278 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250071590
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2016003175
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781250071590
- (OCoLC)918994696
Subject
- College costs -- United States
- EDUCATION / Higher
- EDUCATION / Higher
- Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
- Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
- College costs
- Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States
- Educational change
- Educational change -- United States
- United States
- Education, Higher -- Social aspects
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