Controversies in Higher Education
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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life 3.88 avg rating — 6,971 ratings
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Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses
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Richard Arum
3.42 avg rating — 903 ratings 3. 
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The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
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Lani Guinier
3.86 avg rating — 205 ratings 5. 
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton
by:
Jerome Karabel
4.14 avg rating — 312 ratings 6. 
The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
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Daniel Golden
3.67 avg rating — 977 ratings 7. 
The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture 3.96 avg rating — 1,812 ratings
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities 3.82 avg rating — 749 ratings
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Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It
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Andrew Hacker
3.54 avg rating — 369 ratings 10. 
Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy 4.26 avg rating — 1,500 ratings
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The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s
by:
Ellen Schrecker
4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings 12. 
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Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality
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Charles Murray
3.94 avg rating — 708 ratings 14. 
The Perils of "Privilege": Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage 3.33 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students 4.25 avg rating — 2,214 ratings
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The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America
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David Horowitz
3.29 avg rating — 164 ratings 17. 
The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past 3.89 avg rating — 221 ratings
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Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education 3.60 avg rating — 353 ratings
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The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA
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Taylor Branch
3.98 avg rating — 224 ratings 21. 
Official Encouragement, Institutional Discouragement: Minorities in Academia-The Native American Experience 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia 4.53 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus
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Dinesh D'Souza
3.59 avg rating — 328 ratings 24. 
The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football
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Jeff Benedict
4.05 avg rating — 4,257 ratings 25. 
Paying the Price: College Costs and the Betrayal of the American Dream 4.11 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Swastikas, Nazis, Pledge of Allegiance Lies Exposed by Rex Curry and Francis & Edward Bellamy
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Micky Barnetti
2.90 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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Crisis in Higher Education: A Plan to Save Small Liberal Arts Colleges in America 3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case 4.03 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.87 avg rating — 29,315 ratings 34. 
Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities
by:
Mark C. Taylor
3.17 avg rating — 83 ratings 
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The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History and How We Can Fight Back 3.76 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Saving Higher Education: The Integrated, Competency-Based Three-Year Bachelor's Degree Program 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream
by:
Suzanne Mettler
3.72 avg rating — 160 ratings 
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The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem
by:
Eric Best
3.58 avg rating — 26 ratings 42. 
Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters
by:
Michael S. Roth
3.68 avg rating — 229 ratings 
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Tenured Radicals, Revised: How Politics has Corrupted our Higher Education
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Roger Kimball
3.56 avg rating — 100 ratings 
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Campus Sex Assaults: A Year-Long Investigation of Midwestern Colleges
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Chicago Tribune
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 50. 
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Sexual Assault on the College Campus: The Role of Male Peer Support 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
by:
Frank Bruni
4.02 avg rating — 4,027 ratings 53. 
Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life 3.53 avg rating — 196 ratings
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Who Gets In?: Strategies for Fair and Effective College Admissions
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Rebecca Zwick
4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings 53. 
BYE Student Loan Debt: Learn How to Empower Yourself by Eliminating Your Student Loans really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Everything You Need to Know about Going Greek: Fraternity & Sorority Recruitment in the 21st Century
by:
Bob Kerr
4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings 53. 
Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate
by:
Greg Lukianoff
4.22 avg rating — 398 ratings 53. 
How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons From a Renaissance Education
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Scott L. Newstok
3.87 avg rating — 379 ratings 
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Can We Talk About Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation 4.11 avg rating — 496 ratings
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The Black Book of the American Left: Volume Vlll: The Left in the University
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David Horowitz
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings 62. 
Game On: Why College Admission Is Rigged and How You Can Beat the System
by:
Susan F. Paterno
3.25 avg rating — 85 ratings 62. 
After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It
by:
Will Bunch
3.96 avg rating — 954 ratings 62. 
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Indoctrination U: The Left's War Against Academic Freedom
by:
David Horowitz
3.83 avg rating — 78 ratings 
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True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School
by:
Susan Gubar
3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings 72. 
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Sex and God at Yale: Porn, Political Correctness, and a Good Education Gone Bad
by:
Nathan Harden
3.22 avg rating — 100 ratings 75. 
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Race and College Admissions: A Case for Affirmative Action
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Jamillah Moore
did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Unsafe in the Ivory Tower: The Sexual Victimization of College Women
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Bonnie S. Fisher
3.75 avg rating — 36 ratings 79. 
Chilling Admissions: The Affirmative Action Crisis and the Search for Alternatives
by:
Gary Orfield
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities
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Frank Donoghue
3.77 avg rating — 100 ratings 82. 
Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate
by:
Ernest L. Boyer
3.82 avg rating — 125 ratings 82. 
Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth
by:
Everett Piper
4.07 avg rating — 210 ratings 
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In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic
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Professor X.
3.28 avg rating — 420 ratings 86. 
Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth
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Ben Shapiro
3.64 avg rating — 1,558 ratings 
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New Players, Different Game: Understanding the Rise of For-Profit Colleges and Universities 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Reconsidered: Institutional Integration and Impact
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Pat Hutchings
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings 
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Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Freefall Of The American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting The Minds And Morals Of The Next Generation
by:
Jim Nelson Black
3.25 avg rating — 16 ratings 94. 
Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education (The William G. Bowen Series)
by:
Derek Bok
3.45 avg rating — 118 ratings 96. 
God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation are Changing America 3.58 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century
by:
Annette Kolodny
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings 99. 
We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change
by:
Myles Horton
4.33 avg rating — 994 ratings 100. 
Public No More: A New Path to Excellence for America’s Public Universities (Stanford Business Books (Hardcover))
by:
Andrew Policano
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings