Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About ItWhat's gone wrong at our colleges and universities—and how to get American higher education back on track |
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... Stanford or Emory or Kenyon—the parents feel they've secured a first-class education for their children, plus a reserved place at the table of the nation's elite. If this family is departing for a state-supported institution—perhaps ...
... Stanford's real increase has been 57 percent, and at Princeton, it's been 64 percent. In the public sector, the pay is lower, but there too professors' checks are well ahead of inflation. Texas's full professors are now 46 percent ...
... Stanford faculty children to go there for free, but it should be added that this $38,700 annual benefit is entirely tax-free. And also tax-free is Stanford's picking up half the 25 THE WORLD OF THE PROFESSORIATE.
... Stanford's picking up half the tab if its professors' progeny go away to Harvard or Haverford. At the same time that the scholars at Stanford's Hoover Institution rail against welfare programs, their university maintains some 700 rent ...
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Contents
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PART 2 IDEALS AND ILLUSIONS | 61 |
PART 3 SOME IMMODEST PROPOSALS | 111 |
PART 4 FACING THE FUTURE | 191 |
Coda | 239 |
Afterword | 247 |
Sources | 261 |
Notes | 263 |
Acknowledgments | 273 |
Index | 277 |
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Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids ... Andrew Hacker,Claudia Dreifus No preview available - 2011 |