education, higher

Examines the crisis of increasing college tuition that impacts first-generation, low-income, and minority students who primarily dominate the coming generation. Proposes radically changing traditional higher education and replacing it with personal learning networks and paths that blend experiential and digital methods of learning and free and open models. Provides a reference guide, websites, chapter notes, and an index.

Examines the history of women in higher education, discussing curriculum, sexuality, and popular opinion of the educated woman. Includes photographs and period advertisements.

Provides information on how to meet the challenge of paying for college, looking at tuition and additional costs, offering advice on setting financial boundaries, and discussing financial aid, scholarships, grants, loans, and other sources of funding.

An introduction to planning for college that provides information and answers related questions, covering choosing an institution, admissions, financial aid, scholarships, and more.

The authors, a mother and daughter, discuss what they saw, how they felt, and what they learned during Steffany's last year of high school, the summer before college, and the events of the college separation process.

Discusses the uses of the liberal arts for the conduct of life, describing the humanities as a source of truth, and urging teachers to provide students with the type of life-changing education reading and thinking about great literature can provide.

An account of American university life over the course of an academic year which begins with the recruiting of high school students and addresses student life, classes, faculty-student relationships, tenure, and other student concerns.