Professor Andrew Hacker explains what is wrong with the college education and causes of increase costs

Jerry Palmer
   Professor Andrew Hacker is a critic of his profession being colleges and universities that many have basically sold out to corporate interests. hacker has been wondering why the costs have been skyrocketing yet services provides declining dramatically and his classic hook called "higher education" How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids. I can answer that colleges have been over-taken by foreign interests using these institutions to provide access and achievement for the kids of connected and elite foreign government families. This is the reason colleges have declined miserably an d one only needs to look at the openness of universities and colleges serving foreign students in America There are like five million Chinese student alone in Americas post secondary system and how a nation can call itself independent and strong when you have government and colleges pushing harder to give those outside the countries easier access to out institutions. Professor Hacker speaks little of this outlandish system abuse of out nations schools. The role of teaching and earning has been hijacked by a variety of interests where teaching and learning  are not a top priority but increasing sports spending and adding bureaucratic employment for so many workers at universities in non-teaching roles. I knew colleges were going downhill visiting several in Central Illinois and saw the increase focus of corporate Subway and Panda express type dining experiences over the old animal house cafeteria experience. As mentioned often at this blog Subway sandwiches are basically corporate assets created for Indian people and family members who can't pass the test but have influential corporate influence to get them over here and run cheap sandwich shops. There was never any student demand for on-campus bad meatball and freakish chicken meat sandwich's, yet somehow Subway and other bad foreign influenced and dominated chains found their ways into dorms and dining halls across America. Somehow the old cafeterias that offered fresh foods and greens was displaced by chains and so forth and the often reasoning was that students wanted these changes and added expenses to their collegiate experience by basically eating at the same shit you find in any corner or bit time mall.  Professor Hacker along with co-author Claudia Dreifus have some excellent chapters observing administration overloads and athletic department budget takeovers of big-time schools where sports quickly took over the focus of the development and creation of these former institutions of higher learning. The analysis and solutions of this important subject and why all citizens should care about how these institutions taking tax dollars are run and have been run for corporate purposes instead of educational is a topic that thee two deliver and inform in solid manner for readers with some interest in this subject and the need to reform our post-secondary education to back what it was originally intended to serve the republic.