“With passion, eloquence, and data too, McMillan Cottom charts the harm we are doing to our youth, to higher education, and to democracy itself.” -Cathy N. It is a powerful, chilling tale of what happens when profit-driven privatization of a public good latches on to systemic inequality and individual aspirations.” -Carol Anderson, author of White Rage and professor of African American studies at Emory University It is nuanced, carefully argued, and engagingly written. Darity Jr., professor of economics, public policy, and African American studies at Duke University This is the best book I’ve read on for-profit (or shareholder) colleges and universities.” -William A. “ profound examination of the role of for-profit colleges in the emerging, ‘new’ American economic landscape. Dana Goldstein for the New York Times Book Review Praise for Lower Ed The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy is a 2017 book about American for-profit colleges by sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit CollegesĪs featured on The Daily Show, NPR’s Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the “powerful, chilling tale” (Carol Anderson, author of White Rage) of higher education becoming an engine of social inequality
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