The Faculty Lounges - Riley, Naomi Schaefer
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Tuition has risen at four times the rate of inflation for the past two decades. At the same time, colleges and universities have focused on ever more superficial measures of quality from expertly manicured lawns and state-of-the-art dormitories to organic food offerings in the cafeteria and Wi-Fi everywhere on campus. Riley cuts through the piles of glossy college catalogs and popular rankings of media such as U.S. News and World Report to bring families the real story behind the higher education industry. She shows what parents and students can do to secure the best education at schools that are committed to teaching real subjects to undergraduates.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Tuition has risen at four times the rate of inflation for the past two decades. At the same time, colleges and universities have focused on ever more superficial measures of quality from expertly manicured lawns and state-of-the-art dormitories to organic food offerings in the cafeteria and Wi-Fi everywhere on campus. Riley cuts through the piles of glossy college catalogs and popular rankings of media such as U.S. News and World Report to bring families the real story behind the higher education industry. She shows what parents and students can do to secure the best education at schools that are committed to teaching real subjects to undergraduates.
Autorenporträt
Naomi Schaefer Riley was, until recently, the deputy Taste editor of the Wall Street Journal, where she covered higher education for the editorial page. She is the winner of the 2006 American Academy of Religion's Newswriting Contest for Opinion Writing. Ms. Riley graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University. She lives in the suburbs of New York with her husband Jason and two children.