"The Breakdown of Higher Education makes the case for drastic reform of a higher education now hopelessly corrupted by radical politics"--

"A struggling PhD student makes a shocking discovery about a famous Chinese American poet that sets into motion a series of escalating events, both humorous and fraught, that culminates in an incendiary reckoning of her relationships, beliefs, and identity"--

"In 1982, a new executive at Sallie Mae took home the company's financial documents to review. "You've got to be shitting me," he later told the company's CEO. "This place is a gold mine." Over the next four decades, the student loan industry that Sallie Mae and Congress created blew up into a crisis that would submerge a generation of Americans into $1.5 trillion in student debt. In The Debt Trap, Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell tells...

A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making Higher education is at an impasse. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo show that racism and sexism remain pervasive on campus, while student and faculty movements fight to reverse increased tuition, student debt, corporatization, and adjunctification. Commentators typically frame these issues as crises for an otherwise...

"The extraordinary story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students"--

Public Universities and Regional Growth examines evolutions in research and innovation at six University of California campuses. Each chapter presents a deep, historical analysis that traces the dynamic interaction between particular campuses and regional firms in industries that range from biotechnology, scientific instruments, and semiconductors, to software, wine, and wireless technologies. The book provides a uniquely comprehensive and cohesive...

How is your institution enabling Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff and students to thrive? Is your institution effectively tackling racism? Following the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement, the higher education sector has started making bold commitments to dismantling structural racism. However, big questions remain about how higher education can combat institutional racism and achieve real change. This book disrupts the higher education sector...

Price divergence is readily apparent to anyone who shops. Travelers from Manchester to London, or from Chicago to Paris, are hit by sticker shock. Products ranging from London Fog raincoats to Viagra are available over the Internet at half their retail store prices. Common experience tells us that prices for identical products differ between countries, between cities, even between neighboring shops. On the other hand, common experience also tells...

El litigio por los límites marítimos del Perú y Chile en la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) ha sido también una oportunidad de iniciar el camino hacia la reconciliación de dos países hermanos, pero históricamente enfrentados. A poco tiempo después del fallo de La Haya, aún está por verse si realmente esta experiencia ha servido para sanar heridas y pasar la página. En esta obra, el historiador peruano Daniel Parodi Revoredo comparte...

Learn all about life at Chicago Booth. This in-depth guide to the University of Chicago MBA program includes comprehensive information about the school's flexible core curriculum, recruiting success and student clubs, innovative new facilities, additional campuses and International MBA program. The Clear Admit School Guides go beyond each school's marketing message to give you the hard facts about a program, and then put these school-specific details...