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Publisher
Java Films Exclusives
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
There were 13 million university students in 1960. In 2015, their ranks had swollen to nearly 200 million. Universities are operating in the world's most competitive knowledge economy and they are waging a ferocious battle to attract the brightest minds from around the globe. Higher Education delves into the key, decision-making seats where money and politics intermingle, and reveals the deep cultural divide between a lucrative Anglo-Saxon model of...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity"--
Publisher
Railyard Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As college tuition skyrockets and student debt explodes, a powerful new documentary reveals a nationwide fight for control of the heart, soul and finances of America's public universities. STARVING THE BEAST tells the story of a potent one-two punch roiling public higher education right now: 35 years of systematic defunding and a well financed market oriented reform effort. It's the story of a little known and misunderstood ideological fight, the...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The rise of the internet, new technologies, and free and open higher education are radically altering college forever, and this book explores the paradigm changes that will affect students, parents, educators and employers as it explains how we can take advantage of the new opportunities ahead"--
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Making the transition from the military to higher education can be tricky. This guidebook will make the process easy, accessible, and understandable to any current or former member of the Army pursuing higher education while on active-duty or just leaving the service.
Author
Publisher
Peterson's
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Authors John Hupalo and Peter Mazareas, Ph.D., two of the nation's foremost experts on college planning, bring their expertise in 529 Savings Plans, federal and private credit student loans, college planning and the college admissions process to parents wondering how to best prepare and plan for their children's future. Featuring age-appropriate guidance with grade-by-grade direction for children of all ages, and detailed information on financing...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Taking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life, the author describes the profound moral conflicts for parents take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not pay off.
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Calling for a thorough overhaul of a self-indulgent system, the authors make an incisive case that the American way of higher education, now a 420 billion-per-year business, has lost sight of its primary mission: the education of young adults. Taking readers on a road trip from Princeton to Evergreen State to Florida Gulf Coast University, Hacker and Dreifus reveal those faculties and institutions that are getting it right and proving that teaching...
15) The stressed years of their lives: helping your kid survive and thrive during their college years
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From two leading child and adolescent mental health experts comes a guide for the parents of every college and college-bound student who want to know what's normal mental health and behavior, what's not, and how to intervene before it's too late. All parenting is in preparation for letting go. However, the paradox of parenting is that the more we learn about late adolescent development and risk, the more frightened we become for our children, and...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist presents a deeply researched look at the broken state of higher education in America and how we can work towards a new model that works for all Americans.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1981, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company's financial documents to review. "You've got to be shitting me," he later told the company's CEO. "This place is a gold mine." Over the next four decades, the student loan industry that Sallie Mae and Congress created blew up into a crisis that would submerge a generation of Americans in $1.5 trillion in student debt. In The Debt Trap, Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell tells the...
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The American Dream of success for many Asian Americans includes the highest levels of education. But what does it mean to live that success? In Straight A's Asian American students at Harvard reflect on their common experiences with discrimination, immigrant communities, their relationships to their Asian heritage, and their place in the university. They also explore the difficulties of living up to family expectations and the real-world effects...
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