how colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids--and what we can do about it Hacker, Andrew 1929‐ creator Dreifus, Claudia 1944- text bibliography nyu New York St. Martin's Griffin 2011 1st ed. monographic eng

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289 pages ; 21 cm. 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 and learning can be achieved--and at a much more reasonable price. Part 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. Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. "With a new afterword"--Cover "Originally published in hardcover format by Time Books" a division of Henry Holt and Company .-- verso of title page Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-254) and index. n-us--- Education, Higher United States Educación superior Estados Unidos College costs United States Educación superior Costos College teachers United States Profesores universitarios Estados Unidos LA 227.4 H118h 2011 378.73 9780312573430 031257343X DLC 100305 20230411090805.0 eng