The Five-Year Party: How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It

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Overview

Partying has always been a part of college life. But today's students are spending more time partying than studying, taking an average of five to six years to complete four-year programs and leaving school woefully unprepared for real life. Meanwhile, college administrations not only stand by but encourage it, dropping academic standards and doing away with student and professor accountability in the name of profit. Unaware of higher education's change in priorities, parents continue to put themselves ever deeper in debt to afford skyrocketing tuition, even though only one dollar in five is spent on instruction. And the average student graduates with almost $25,000 in debt only to be met with unemployment or low-paying jobs.

Party-school insider and award-winning education reporter Craig Brandon reveals colleges and universities' new business-minded mission and the devastating implications for your child's future. The Five-Year Party provides the critical information you need about what's really happening in higher education today and what you can do to ensure your child gets the education he or she deserves.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781935251804
  • Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
  • Publication date: 8/17/2010
  • Pages: 236
  • Sales rank: 708,891
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Craig Brandon is the author of five books and a former education reporter and college writing teacher. His writing has won awards sponsored by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the National School Boards Association, the Associated Press and first prize in investigative reporting from the Education Writers Association. He lectures frequently on topics connected with his books and has appeared on the History Channel, PBS and “Unsolved Mysteries.”

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 How Retention Replaced Education at America's Colleges 1

Chapter 2 Maximizing Profits at the Students' Expense 15

Chapter 3 How Education Became Optional 45

Chapter 4 Party School Perils 77

Chapter 5 An Obsession with Secrecy 111

Chapter 6 When the Party Ends and the Tab Comes Due 139

Chapter 7 How Parents Can Cancel the Five-Year Party 163

Appendix: The Red Flag List 195

Acknowledgments 203

Endnotes 207

Index 217

About the Author 235

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