Now with a new foreword by Stephanie Kelton, economic advisor to Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, this smart and essential book cuts to the very core of our nation’s broken social contracts and the challenges we face in our divided, unequal society. Tressie McMillan Cottom is an associate professor of sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of Lower Ed and Thick (The New Press). As the Trump administration moves to make life ever easier for the nation’s for-profit colleges, this book offers.
With sharp insight and deliberate acumen, Tressie McMillan Cottom―a sociologist who was once a recruiter at two for-profit colleges―expertly parses the fraught dynamics of this big-money industry.ĭrawing on more than one hundred interviews with students, employees, executives, and activists, Lower Ed details the benefits, pitfalls, and real costs of the expansion of for-profit colleges. RT prabhbob: i did a book symposium & reviewed three books on selective higher education 'Labor and Elite Domination in the Color Line of U.S. Ruth Milkman, past president of the American Sociological Association 'In a sea of simplistic and often bombastic critiques of American higher education, Tressie McMillan Cottom’s trenchant analysis of Lower Ed stands out. Lower Ed is quickly becoming the definitive book on the fastest-growing sector of higher education at the turn of the twenty-first century: for-profit colleges. “The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students.” ― The New York Times Book Review RT johnedwinmason: Im always looking for readings that make complex ideas accessible to undergrads intersectionality, for instance.
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