Joining McMillan Cottom in discussing the plight of students at for-profit colleges is Carrie Wofford, President of Veterans Education Success, and Janelle Jones of the Economic Policy Institute. McMillan Cottom rejects simplistic notions of good and bad around for-profit colleges and instead probes deeper, investigating these institutions’ role in perpetuating American inequality.

Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with students, employees, executives, and activists, Lower Ed tells the story of the benefits, pitfalls, and real costs of a for-profit education. Lower Ed is theoretically provocative, empirically rich, and enjoyable to read. In Lower Ed Tressie McMillan Cottoma bold and rising public scholar, herself once a recruiter at two for-profit collegesexpertly parses the fraught dynamics of this big-money industry to. In Lower Ed Tressie McMillan Cottom-herself once a recruiter at two for-profit colleges-expertly parses the fraught dynamics of this big-money industry to show precisely how it is part and parcel of the growing inequality plaguing the country today. Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy by Tressie McMillan Cottom (Signed) 18.

She enrolled in nine of these institutions to study their appeal and approach. Eastern, the Economic Policy Institute will host Tressie McMillan Cottom as she presents her new book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. Tressie McMillan Cottom worked in enrollment at two for-profit colleges and wrote her doctoral thesis about their growth and the increasing role credit and debt play in the sector.

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