Isbn: 9781250071590 - fail u: the false promise of higher education (20 resultados)

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Hardback. Condición: Very Good. The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978--four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt has surpassed $1.3 trillion. Nearly two thirds of all college students must borrow to study, and the average student graduates with more than $30,000 in debt. Many college graduates under twenty-five years old are unemployed or underemployed. And professors--remember them?--rarely teach undergraduates at many major universities, instead handing off their lecture halls to cheaper teaching assistants. So, is it worth it? That's the question Charles J. Sykes attempts to answer in>Fail U., exploring the staggering costs of a college education, the sharp decline in tenured faculty and teaching loads, the explosion of administrative jobs, the grandiose building plans, and the utter lack of preparedness for the real world that many now graduates face. Fail U. offers 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--and one that will actually be useful in their future careers and lives.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978--four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt has surpassed $1.3 trillion. Nearly two thirds of all college students must borrow to study, and the average student graduates with more than $30,000 in debt. Many college graduates under twenty-five years old are unemployed or underemployed. And professors--remember them?--rarely teach undergraduates at many major universities, instead handing off their lecture halls to cheaper teaching assistants. So, is it worth it? That's the question Charles J. Sykes attempts to answer in>Fail U., exploring the staggering costs of a college education, the sharp decline in tenured faculty and teaching loads, the explosion of administrative jobs, the grandiose building plans, and the utter lack of preparedness for the real world that many now graduates face. Fail U. offers 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--and one that will actually be useful in their future careers and lives.…

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Hardback. Condición: Good. The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978--four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt has surpassed $1.3 trillion. Nearly two thirds of all college students must borrow to study, and the average student graduates with more than $30,000 in debt. Many college graduates under twenty-five years old are unemployed or underemployed. And professors--remember them?--rarely teach undergraduates at many major universities, instead handing off their lecture halls to cheaper teaching assistants. So, is it worth it? That's the question Charles J. Sykes attempts to answer in>Fail U., exploring the staggering costs of a college education, the sharp decline in tenured faculty and teaching loads, the explosion of administrative jobs, the grandiose building plans, and the utter lack of preparedness for the real world that many now graduates face. Fail U. offers 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--and one that will actually be useful in their future careers and lives.…

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Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Ed., 1st Printing. 278 pages. Failure of Higher Education.

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Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 288 pages. 10.00x6.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Condición: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 288 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.