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1) The college roommate from hell: skills and strategies for surviving college with a problem roommate
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Every year, more than 500,000 new students join the ranks of American college students and a good percentage of them stay in student housing. For those who do not stay in student housing, it is almost guaranteed that you will have a roommate at some point in your college career it's a rite of passage. But, for someone who has lived with their parents, in their own room, for 18 years, having a college roommate can be an entirely new experience, especially...
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"Winner of the 2011 Pierre Bourdieu Book Award, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association" Thomas J. Espenshade is professor of sociology at Princeton University. Alexandria Walton Radford completed her PhD in sociology at Princeton University and directs the Center for Postsecondary Transformation at American Institutes for Research (AIR).
The truth about America's elite colleges and universities-who gets in, who succeeds,...
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Two young women, dormitory mates, embark on their education at a big state university. Five years later, one is earning a good salary at a prestigious accounting firm. With no loans to repay, she lives in a fashionable apartment with her fiance. The other woman, saddled with burdensome debt and a low GPA, is still struggling to finish her degree in tourism. In an era of skyrocketing tuition and mounting concern over whether college is "worth it,"...
6) The five-year party: how colleges have given up on educating your child and what you can do about it
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BenBella Books
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c2010
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St. Martin's Press
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2016.
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""College" is a word that means many things to many people: a space for knowledge, a place to gain lifelong friends, and an opportunity to transcend one's socioeconomic station. Today, though, this word also recalls a slew of headlines that have revealed a dark and persistent world of racial politics on campus. Does this association disturb our idealized visions of what happens behind the ivied walls of higher learning? It should - because campus...