Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 288 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2016003175 Type of material Book Personal name Sykes, Charles J. Main title Fail U.: the false promise of higher education / Charles J. Sykes. Edition First edition. Published/Produced New York: St. Martin's Press, 2016. Description 278 pages; 24 cm LC classification LA227.4. S95 2016 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"-Provided by publisher. Subjects Education, Higher-Aims and objectives-United States. Education, Higher-Social aspects-United States. C
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