Howard Karger, David Stoesz

Failing Universities

How Higher Education Became a Commodity and What We Can Do About It

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines American higher education and proposes a forward-looking agenda for structural reform that is less expensive and more educationally sound than the current marketized model.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781350383814
• ISBN-10: 1350383813
• Artikelnr.: 70164231

Autorenporträt

Howard Karger and David Stoesz

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
1 The Price of Admission
2 Just Another Commodity
3. Driving Up the Cost of Higher Education
4. American Universities, Inc.
5. The College Sports Industrial Complex
6. Inequality and the Corporatization of Higher Education
Conclusion: A Framework for Reforming Higher Education
Notes
Index