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Cottom, Tressie McMillan

 
9781620970607: Lower Ed: How For-Profit Colleges Deepen Inequality in America

Sinopsis

Despite the celebrated history of not-for-profit institutions of higher education, today more than 2 million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges such as ITT Technical Institute, the University of Phoenix, and others. Yet little is known about why for-profits have expanded so quickly and even less about how the power and influence of this big-money industry impact individual lives. Lower Ed, the first book to link the rapid expansion of for-profit degrees to America's increasing inequality, reveals the story of an industry that exploits aspirations.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom is an associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Thick. Her work has been featured by The Daily Show, the New York Times, the Washington Post, PBS, NPR, Fresh Air, and The Atlantic, among others. In 2020, McMillan Cottom was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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9781620974384: Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy

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ISBN 10:  162097438X ISBN 13:  9781620974384
Editorial: The New Press, 2018
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