Fail U. : the false promise of higher education /

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Author / Creator:	Sykes, Charles J., 1954- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Description:	278 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States. Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States. College costs -- United States. Educational change -- United States. College costs. Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives. Education, Higher -- Social aspects. Educational change. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10920511

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ISBN:	9781250071590 1250071593 9781250091765
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
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
Notes
Index

Fail U. : the false promise of higher education /

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