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Fail U: the false promise of higher education

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Author:
Sykes, Charles J., 1954-
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press,
Pub. Date:
2016.
Language:
English
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"The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978 - four times the rate of inflation. Provocative, persuasive, clear-eyed, and even amusing, Fail U. strips the academic emperor of its clothes to reveal the American university system as it really is - and how it must change"--
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College costs
College costs -- United States
Education, Higher
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States
Educational change
Educational change -- United States
Social aspects
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Education, Higher
Educational change
Social aspects