Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education

Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education
ISBN-10
022672042X
ISBN-13
9780226720425
Category
Education
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2022-02-25
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Charlie Eaton

Description

Universities and the social circuitry of finance -- Our new financial oligarchy -- Bankers to the rescue : the political turn to student debt -- The top : how universities became hedge funds -- The bottom : a Wall Street takeover of for-profit colleges -- The middle : a hidden squeeze on public universities -- Reimagining (higher education) finance from below -- Methodological appendix : a comparative, qualitative, and quantitative study of elites.

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