Overview
This book identifies the causes of rising college tuitions. It identifies a system of policies, practices, and regulations that have converted higher education into an inefficient system that serves the interest of the tenured class and professional educators over that of the students. Using statistics, analysis, and examples, the author identifies and names the culprit behind these tuition increases as structural and cultural liberalism, all of which has created a tax on students and tuition payers. The author calls this inefficiency the tenure tax. The book examines how to find value in the current system, and it offers reforms in the form of an education revolution to remake higher education. He advocates for changes from how it hires and contracts with professors, to the role of government and private lending. The thesis of the book is simple: The current system is creating a debtor class of Serfs, studying dubious majors not useful in the job market. The result is that institutions are hunting revenue to feed and pay the elite class, the faculty and administrators, who have become Lords in this educational feudal system.
Full Product Details
Author: Richard Kelsey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 21.90cm
Weight: 0.268kg
ISBN: 9781475837902
ISBN 10: 1475837909
Pages: 164
Publication Date: 30 September 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Dean Kelsey's take on higher education is brash, thoughtful and comprehensive. It also comes from an industry insider who truly understands the current landscape. Kelsey identifies the problems...including our own role as a culture in driving up costs. He defines the tenure tax, and then brilliantly devises the reforms necessary to fix it. It's a revolution of the serfs.--David M. Salkin, author of the Team Book Series, including his latest, Dangerous Ground This provocative examination of Higher Education will change the way everyone thinks about college selection, choice of major and student debt. Every family thinking about college for their children needs to read this book. Dean Kelsey has provides a practical and revolutionary roadmap that both identifies the problems in higher education and offers real solutions.--Karen Lanpher, PhD, Psychologist, Business Executive
Dean Kelsey's take on higher education is brash, thoughtful and comprehensive. It also comes from an industry insider who truly understands the current landscape. Kelsey identifies the problems...including our own role as a culture in driving up costs. He defines the tenure tax, and then brilliantly devises the reforms necessary to fix it. It's a revolution of the serfs. -- David M. Salkin, author of the Team Book Series, including his latest, Dangerous Ground This provocative examination of Higher Education will change the way everyone thinks about college selection, choice of major and student debt. Every family thinking about college for their children needs to read this book. Dean Kelsey has provides a practical and revolutionary roadmap that both identifies the problems in higher education and offers real solutions. -- Karen Lanpher, PhD, Psychologist, Business Executive
Dean Kelsey's take on higher education is brash, thoughtful and comprehensive. It also comes from an industry insider who truly understands the current landscape. Kelsey identifies the problems...including our own role as a culture in driving up costs. He defines the tenure tax, and then brilliantly devises the reforms necessary to fix it. It's a revolution of the serfs. -- David M. Salkin, author of the Team Book Series, including his latest, Dangerous Ground This provocative examination of Higher Education will change the way everyone thinks about college selection, choice of major and student debt. Every family thinking about college for their children needs to read this book. Dean Kelsey has provides a practical and revolutionary roadmap that both identifies the problems in higher education and offers real solutions. -- Karen Lanpher, PhD, Psychologist, Business Executive A must-read for anyone concerned about higher education. Richard Kelsey, the original educational consumer, has effectively nailed his critique to higher education's cathedral door. Kelsey launches a no holds barred, no quarter asked or given offensive on the educational establishment's ruling elite. It is a view from the trenches that gives great advice and real, hard-learned warnings to parents and prospective students alike. -- Rob Bartenstein, Financial analyst/contributor to CNBC
Author Information
Richard Kelsey is a former assistant law school and technology CEO. He is a trial lawyer and recognized legal expert who examines what's wrong in higher education and proposes real solutions to fix it.
