Restoring the promise : higher education in America

Restoring the promise : higher education in America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Vedder, Richard K. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oakland, California : Independent Institute, [2019]
Subjects:	Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States. Education, Higher > United States > Finance. Public universities and colleges > United States > Finance. Higher education and state > United States.
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Table of Contents:

Higher education's triple crisis
Why go to college anyway?
College is too costly
Students aren't learning critical knowledge and employable skills
College graduates are underemployed
How did we get here?
Nearly four centuries of higher learning
Why fees and costs are rising so fast
Why endowments don't lower the cost of tuition
The federal student financial assistance debt crisis
Where does all the money go?
Universities? : Spending perversities
Nonacademic activities and rip-offs
The edifice complex
The costly enterprise of intercollegiate athletics
Is educating students a top priority?
The conundrum of research
The academic cartel of accreditation
The scandal of diversity
The weaknesses of current university governance
Where do we go from here?
The three I's of university reform
The failure of government higher education policy
Reforming higher education.