A review by gwalt118
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom

4.0

I read this book for HIED 820: The College Student. I don't know much about for-profit colleges, and I learned a lot from this book. It is a thoroughly researched, insightful study of this industry our society has created through inequitable social and economic trends. As a doctoral student, I also enjoyed this as an example of autoethnographic research. If you're a higher ed person, you'll find this book fascinating. If you're not, you may way to keep scrolling...although I would argue that the social problems discussed in this book affect all of us.

My only critique? I wanted more solutions and action items at the end, but that's likely driven by the pragmatist in me.