Failing Universities

<p><b>Colleges and universities were once places where students came to learn experts intellectuals and others came to teach and where knowledge was created. Today America's higher education system is severely compromised by commodification and corporatization which have transformed higher education into a marketplace.</b><b> This book examines the effects of these transformations providing a comprehensive critique of the problems the sector faces. <br></b><br>It outlines how higher education's commodification has impacted areas including affordability access waste hierarchal administrative structures faculty governance the college sports industrial complex and status and social mobility based on institutional prestige. The authors explore alternative policy solutions and examples of systems of higher education that are both effective and cost-effective. They propose a forward-looking agenda for structural reform that is less expensive and more educationally sound than the current model. Emphasising social cohesion sustainability a respect for diversity and an understanding of democracy and democratic principles <i>Failing Universities </i>offers alternative solutions for US higher education to return to its basic mission.</p>