The Five-Year Party · How Colleges Have Given Up on Educating Your Child and What You Can Do About It by Brandon, Craig -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Praise Title Page Dedication Introduction Chapter 1 - How Retention Replaced Education at America’s Colleges Chapter 2 - Maximizing Profits at the Students’ Expense

The Lies Told Along the Golden Walk Nips and Tucks for Tired Colleges The “Arms Race” to Add Campus Frills High Salaries and Elaborate Perks for Party School Administrators Endless Tuition Hikes, and How Party Schools Get Away with Them The “Unholy Alliance” with Predatory Lenders Selling Out to Credit Card Companies Study Abroad Scams

Chapter 3 - How Education Became Optional

Dumbed-Down Classes The Professor as Entertainer Grade Inflation The Disengagement Compact How Much Do Students Really Study? The Glorification of Stupidity The Tragedy of the 10 Percent

Chapter 4 - Party School Perils

Where Binge Drinkers Rule Managing Binge Drinkers Even Nondrinkers Are Victims Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia Date Rape Hazing and Gang Rape “Spontaneous” Student Riots Untreated Mental Illness

Chapter 5 - An Obsession with Secrecy

The Code of Silence The Strange History of FERPA Why the Report Card Never Arrives Secret Treatments for Mentally Ill Students The Destruction of Campus Discourse How Party Schools Deliberately Cover Up Campus Crimes The Clery Act and Unreported Statistics Why the News Media Ignores the Problem Campus Journalists Denied Information

Chapter 6 - When the Party Ends and the Tab Comes Due

The Student Loan Trap The Glut of Party School Graduates The Bleak Lives of Party School Graduates Has the “College Premium” Disappeared? College Graduates Who Refuse to Grow Up

Chapter 7 - How Parents Can Cancel the Five-Year Party

How to Protect Your Child Policy Changes That Will Help Shut Down the Five-Year Party A Call to Action

Appendix - The Red Flag List: How to Spot Party Schools and Subprime Colleges Acknowledgements Endnotes Index About the Author Copyright Page