education, higher

The author describes the personal challenges he faced while trying to continue his education, and his guilt over going off to college after his father returned to Mexico, leaving his family in poverty.

Provides descriptions of over 1.6 million private scholarships, grants, loans, and prizes available from federal, state, and private sources, each with eligibility requirements, application deadlines, contacts, and other information.

Collects twenty-two essays that provide varying perspectives on issues concerning for-profit education, debating if the needs of school age and college students are met, what the future role of for-profit education is, and more.

Examines the efforts of James B. Angell, president of the University of Michigan in 1872, to create an articulated system of education that aligned schools, courses, and standards at all levels so that students could pass seamlessly from one grade to another, and from the secondary schools to the university, and looks at how Angell's movement spread and was enacted in other states between the 1870s and the early twentieth century.

Provides profiles of approximately 1,400 accredited public and private colleges and universities in the U.S., each ranked on eleven factors, including selectivity, student diversity, graduation rates, and student debt; and includes an index of schools, a college planner, and tips on getting in, paying for, and succeeding in college.

A guide to financing college that covers direct and indirect costs, student loans, aid eligibility, scholarships, tuition reward programs, and other related topics.

Provides detailed profiles of over fourteen hundred accredited public and private colleges and universities in the United States with information on tuition, financial aid, academic majors, student employment, student diversity, and much more.

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.

Francisco Jimenez, the son of Mexican immigrants, describes the challenges he faced as a student at Santa Clara University in California in the 1960s.