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This book identifies the causes of rising college tuitions. It identifies a system of policies, practices, and regulations that have converted higher education into an inefficient system that serves the interest of the tenured class and professional educators over that of the students. Using statistics, analysis, and examples, the author identifies and names the culprit behind these tuition increases as structural and cultural liberalism, all of which has created a tax on students and tuition payers. The author calls this inefficiency the tenure tax. The book examines how to find value in the current system, and it offers reforms in the form of an education revolution to remake higher education. He advocates for changes from how it hires and contracts with professors, to the role of government and private lending. The thesis of the book is simple: The current system is creating a debtor class of Serfs, studying dubious majors not useful in the job market. The result is that institutions are hunting revenue to feed and pay the elite class, the faculty and administrators, who have become Lords in this educational feudal system.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- College Inflation Chart
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: How to Use This Book
- Part I: Why Does College Cost So Damn Much?
- 1 The Cost of âStructural Liberalismâ in Higher Education
- 2 Does Structural Liberalism in Higher Education Serve Faculty or Students First?
- 3 Do You Want a K-Car or a Porsche?
- 4 What Is the Tenure Tax?
- 5 Who Is Running This Place?
- 6 The Rise of the Administrative Machine
- 7 Cronyism and the Entitlement of the Lords
- 8 Is Private Money Donated to Public Institutions Always Good?
- 9 Revenue Predators: Have Colleges Become Revenue Predators?
- 10 Is That Degree Worth the Debt?
- 11 What Is a Dubious Degree?
- Part II: Combating the Higher Education Monopoly: Is Reform Enough?
- 12 Reform or Revolution?
- 13 Why Are Deregulation and Reregulation Essential in Higher Education?
- 14 Do We Really Need Student Loan Reform?
- 15 Can We Really Reform Tenure?
- 16 How Does a Student Find Value Right Now?
- Epilogue
- Glossary
- Notes
- About the Author