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Book says many U.S. universities are waste of money
July 29, 2010
Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money And Failing Our Kids - And What We Can Do About It, urges parents and students to consider colleges that spend on teaching instead of sports and which encourage faculty to interact with students instead of doing research, taking sabbaticals and sitting on campus committees. Andrew Hacker, co-author with Claudia Dreifus, said that "Higher education has become the preserve of professors ... (who) really have lost contact with the main purpose of higher education, which is the education of students."
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