In the book, Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our
Kids-- and What We Can Do About It, the title states it all. Hacker and Dreifus disclose the woes and troubles that are happening inside the world of higher education. They are writing as stated by the New York Times on August 18, 2010, “on the state of American higher education and what they perceive as its increasing betrayal of its primary mission — for them, the teaching of undergraduates.” (Knapp). They elaborate in the book by conveying that higher education isn’t doing what it is meant to do anymore and is severely veering off its path of educating people. They show that some people presume that more money predicates a better education or chance of employment. …show more content…
Khan talks about how University’s tuitions have skyrocketed in the past and how college’s ideals and students are starting to not line up causing a disconnect between universities and their students. He goes on by showing some erroneous and outdated teaching methods and how they’re hurting students in their long run of trying to find a good job after college. Furthermore he shows some hopeful parallels in an attempt to show that colleges can be fixed and this problem can be turned around to start helping rather than hurting the students. All of this information seems to be aimed to students, parents, educators, administrators, or anyone else who has a stake in higher education. It is aimed towards them because of how large of an impact higher education can have on all of their lives. Which leads to Khan’s purpose in all of this which is to inform people about the problems in today’s higher education and to try and give them solutions to this problem to show them what colleges could be like in the future. All of this research seems quite timely with the growing amount of student debt in America and the lower amount of people getting jobs out of college. Khan has seen that obviously there is something wrong with the current system of higher education and because of this he has decided to write about it to try and propose some solutions and inform …show more content…
For example the rising costs of tuition, Khan talks about the growing tuitions at every college and how it is hurting students. He states, “Between 2000-2001 and 2010-2011 prices for undergraduate tuition, room, and board at public institutions rose 42% and prices at private … rose 31%, after adjustment for inflation.” (Khan 41). Just to make sure Khan cited all of these statistics to the U.S. department of Education making them quite reliable. These statistics show quite a scary thing that is happening to students in college, tuition is rising so much that by the time many are out of school they have quite a lot of debt that they need to pay off. Obviously with tuitions rising this much after inflation there is a problem with higher education and it is hurting the students whom higher education should be focused on teaching. To add on to the fact that many students are in mountains of debt is the fact that many can’t get jobs either now to pay off that debt. Khan states, “Fifty-three percent of recent college graduates are jobless or underemployed, the highest in 11 years.” (41). More and more students are not able to get a job once they get out of college. This daunting statistic (from the Associated Press) shows that once many students get out of college with their debt, they will have no way to pay it off because they can’t find a job. Rising tuition debts and
Kids-- and What We Can Do About It, the title states it all. Hacker and Dreifus disclose the woes and troubles that are happening inside the world of higher education. They are writing as stated by the New York Times on August 18, 2010, “on the state of American higher education and what they perceive as its increasing betrayal of its primary mission — for them, the teaching of undergraduates.” (Knapp). They elaborate in the book by conveying that higher education isn’t doing what it is meant to do anymore and is severely veering off its path of educating people. They show that some people presume that more money predicates a better education or chance of employment. …show more content…
Khan talks about how University’s tuitions have skyrocketed in the past and how college’s ideals and students are starting to not line up causing a disconnect between universities and their students. He goes on by showing some erroneous and outdated teaching methods and how they’re hurting students in their long run of trying to find a good job after college. Furthermore he shows some hopeful parallels in an attempt to show that colleges can be fixed and this problem can be turned around to start helping rather than hurting the students. All of this information seems to be aimed to students, parents, educators, administrators, or anyone else who has a stake in higher education. It is aimed towards them because of how large of an impact higher education can have on all of their lives. Which leads to Khan’s purpose in all of this which is to inform people about the problems in today’s higher education and to try and give them solutions to this problem to show them what colleges could be like in the future. All of this research seems quite timely with the growing amount of student debt in America and the lower amount of people getting jobs out of college. Khan has seen that obviously there is something wrong with the current system of higher education and because of this he has decided to write about it to try and propose some solutions and inform …show more content…
For example the rising costs of tuition, Khan talks about the growing tuitions at every college and how it is hurting students. He states, “Between 2000-2001 and 2010-2011 prices for undergraduate tuition, room, and board at public institutions rose 42% and prices at private … rose 31%, after adjustment for inflation.” (Khan 41). Just to make sure Khan cited all of these statistics to the U.S. department of Education making them quite reliable. These statistics show quite a scary thing that is happening to students in college, tuition is rising so much that by the time many are out of school they have quite a lot of debt that they need to pay off. Obviously with tuitions rising this much after inflation there is a problem with higher education and it is hurting the students whom higher education should be focused on teaching. To add on to the fact that many students are in mountains of debt is the fact that many can’t get jobs either now to pay off that debt. Khan states, “Fifty-three percent of recent college graduates are jobless or underemployed, the highest in 11 years.” (41). More and more students are not able to get a job once they get out of college. This daunting statistic (from the Associated Press) shows that once many students get out of college with their debt, they will have no way to pay it off because they can’t find a job. Rising tuition debts and