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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Unlike existing college guidebooks, which contain easy-to-Google admissions statistics and anecdotal generalizations about campus life, Colleges Worth Your Money reveals where graduates work, salaries, grad school acceptances, internships and research opportunities, career services ratings, and data-rich, school-specific admissions strategies.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, in an attempt to prepare young people for a world transformed by the telegraph and the Model T. As Cathy N. Davidson argues in The New Education, this approach to education is wholly unsuited to the era of the gig economy. From the Ivy League to community colleges, she introduces us to...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Standing on the foundations of America's promise of equal opportunity, our universities purport to serve as engines of social mobility and practitioners of democracy. But as acclaimed scholar and pioneering civil rights advocate Lani Guinier argues,the merit systems that dictate the admissions practices of these institutions are functioning to select and privilege elite individuals rather than create learning communities geared to advance democratic...
Publisher
Peterson's
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The perfect resource for anyone seeking undergraduate education at a four-year institution in the United States, Canada, or abroad--the trusted source among guidance counselors, parents, and students to find the right college or university for undergraduate study. Peterson's Four-Year Colleges 2021 includes information on every accredited four-year undergraduate institution in the United States and Canada (and many international schools)--more than...
Publisher
Peterson's
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Peterson's® Four-Year Colleges 2019 is a valuable resource that includes information on every accredited four-year undergraduate institution in the U.S. and Canada, more than 2,500 institutions in all. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions written by admissions personnel for over 140 colleges and universities. College-bound students and their parents can access details including campus setting, enrollment, academic programs, entrance difficulty,...
Publisher
Peterson's
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Peterson's® Four-Year Colleges 2020 is a valuable resource that includes information on every accredited four-year undergraduate institution in the U.S. and Canada, more than 2,500 institutions in all. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions written by admissions personnel for over 175 colleges and universities. College-bound students and their parents can access details including campus setting, enrollment, academic programs, entrance difficulty,...
7) 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
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Every year, large numbers of American young people who are not terribly interested in attending a four-year college reluctantly enroll anyway, effectively pressured by combinations of parents, peers, teachers, guidance counselors, and the normative air they breathe. More than occasionally, they wind up confirming that collegiate life is not for them and, sooner or later, drop out. From there, again more than occasionally, they find themselves unemployed...
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 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. So, is it worth it? That’s the question Charles J. Sykes attempts to answer in Fail U.,...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The decision of whether to go to college, or where, is hampered by poor information and inadequate understanding of the financial risk involved. Adding to the confusion, the same degree can cost dramatically different amounts for different people. A barrage of advertising offers new degrees designed to lead to specific jobs, but we see no information on whether graduates ever get those jobs. Mix in a frenzied applications process, and pressure from...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Bunch presents a deeply researched look at the broken state of higher education in America. He traces the modern history of college in the United States, from the landmark GI Bill and the culture wars of the 60s and 70s, through the explosion in student loan debt that has fueled major social movements. In showing how resentment of college-educated elites morphed into a rejection of knowledge itself, Bunch proposes a new model of college education...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising--on campus as well as nationally. How did this happen? First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in three terrible...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The dramatic untold story of the student loan debt crisis in America. In 1981, a new executive at the student loan giant 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." Far from making college affordable, the student loan system has created a college-industrial complex that has submerged multiple generations in debt. For millions, their...
Author
Publisher
Winning Team Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Why do we send our kids to college? Why do we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a useless degree? Why do we let our children get indoctrinated by those who fundamentally disagree with America's greatness? In his newest book, The College Scam, Charlie Kirk answers all of these questions and more. Since founding Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk has been the leading voice across American college campuses standing up for conservative students....
Author
Publisher
Ramsey Press, the Lampo Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A manual to help high school graduates avoid the five mistakes a large majority of college students make. These mistakes may cause you years and years of pain and hardship if you too follow the path of so many others.
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Black colleges and universities are a haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries and have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field. Examines the impact these institutions have had on American history, culture, and national identity.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A guide to 320+ four-year schools, including quotes from real students and information you won't find on college websites. In addition to detailed and candid stories about each school, you will find lists of strong programs and popular majors at each college, information on how to apply, graduation and acceptance rates, and exclusive academic, social, and quality-of-life ratings. -- Adapted from back cover.
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