TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hacker,Andrew
AU  - Dreifus,Claudia
TI  - Higher education?: how colleges are wasting our money and failing our kids--and what we can do about it 
SN  - 9780312573430
AV  - LA 227.4 H118h 2011
U1  - 378.73 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Griffin, 
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - United States
KW  - Educación superior
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - College costs
KW  - Costos
KW  - College teachers
KW  - Profesores universitarios
N1  - "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; 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
N2  - 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
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