02309cam a22003494a 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001800102041000800120043001200128050002500140082001100165100002900176245014800205250001200353260004500365300002500410500015200435504006600587505052000653520052501173650003801698650004201736650003401778650003401812650003701846650004601883700003001929BJBSDDR20230411090805.0ta100305s2011    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a9780312573430  a031257343X  aDLCcDLCbeng  aeng  an-us---14aLA 227.4bH118h 201100a378.731 aHacker, Andrew,d1929‐10aHigher education? :bhow colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids--and what we can do about it /cAndrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bSt. Martin's Griffin, c2011  a289 pages ; c21 cm.  a"With a new afterword"--Cover
"Originally published in hardcover format by Time Books" a division of Henry Holt and Company .-- verso of title page  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-254) and index.0 aPart 1: What went wrong? -- World of the professoriate -- Administrative overload -- Contingent education -- Part 2: Ideals and illusions -- The golden dozen -- Teaching: good, great, abysmal -- The triumph of training -- Part 3: Some immodest proposals -- Why college costs so much -- Fireproof: the tangled issue of tenure -- The athletics incubus -- Student bodies -- Part 4: Facing the future -- Visiting the future in Florida -- The college crucible: add students and stir -- Schools we like--our top ten list.  aCalling 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 and learning can be achieved--and at a much more reasonable price. 0aEducation, HigherzUnited States. 4aEducación superior zEstados Unidos 0aCollege costszUnited States. 4aEducación superior xCostos 0aCollege teacherszUnited States. 4aProfesores universitarioszEstados Unidos1 aDreifus, Claudia, d1944-