![]() ![]() Cottom’s (2017) book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, provides readers insight on how students’ socioeconomic status plays a role in higher education. ![]() Many have viewed education as a way to change the trajectory of an entire family for generations to come (Song, 2016). The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. LOWER ED: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy (Review)Ĭottom, T.M. If you’re looking for a quarantine read that can shed light on educational precarity and access issues, this book should be on your list. Given the distance between the books’ publication and the changing realities of higher education in the current political landscape, this text remains relevant to all who seek to serve and support students on campus. The following review was created by first-year doctoral student Kimberley Turner-Rush. Brittany Williams, was developed to help students explore academic writing forms beyond the traditional paper format and to give students an opportunity to interweave a book review with other assigned course readings. In our Spring 2020 HiEd820: The College Student course, doctoral students had the opportunity to choose between writing a book review and participating in a course discussion. ![]()
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