The university system has its problems. Students invest a lot of time and money in education but all too often don’t get what they came for.
In What’s Wrong With University, Jeff Rybak addresses the most pressing...
Universities and colleges
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Author:Jonas, Julia MaySummary:A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew of accusations against her professor husband by former students--a situation that becomes more complicated when she herself develops an...
- Author:Wellington, JoelleSummary:
A Black teen desperate to regain her Ivy League acceptance enters an elite competition only to discover the stakes aren't just high, they're deadly, in this searing thriller that's Ace of Spades meets Squid Game with a...
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Author:Charbonneau, JoelleSummary:Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
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Author:Henry, Frances, Dua, Enakshi, James, Carl E., Kobayashi, Audrey, Li, Peter, Ramos, Howard, Smith, Malinda S.Summary:The university is often regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy where equity and diversity are vigorously promoted. In reality, the university still excludes many people and is a site of racialization that is subtle, complex, and...
- Author:Brown, EchoSummary:
There are many watchers and they are always white. That's the first thing Echo notices at Dartmouth College. But it might be a portal to different dimensions, if Echo takes charge of her future by healing her past.
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Author:Millar, Erin, Coli, BenSummary:A comprehensive and honest guide to the Canadian college and university experience, offering down-to-earth advice on everything from choosing your major to surviving residence, from acing exams to partying safely. For most students,...
- Author:Egan, KieranSummary:
Saved from certain death on the Whistler-Vancouver highway after his luxury car malfunctions, Mark Morata feels honour-bound to reward his rescuer, Geoff Pybus, with a token of his undying gratitude. Geoff, a frustratingly humble...
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Author:Kreitzer, LindaSummary:Social Work in Africa offers professors, students, and practitioners insight concerning social work in the African context. Its purpose is to encourage examination of the social work curriculum and to demonstrate practical ways to make...
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Author:Meunier, E.-MartinSummary:Cet ouvrage, avec ses contributions tantôt essayistes, tantôt savantes, cherche à approfondir la réflexion sur le Québec contemporain afin de mieux comprendre la nature des mutations qui le transforment profondément aujourd'hui....
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Author:McDonald, MeganSummary:When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
- Author:Lauren, ChristinaSummary:
The New York Times bestselling "romance It Girls" (Kirkus) bring you a hilarious, sexy romance about love perpetually unrequited (and denied), in the vein of their Roomies and Beautiful Bastard. Foul-mouthed, quirky, sharp-as-...
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Author:Mosley, WalterSummary:At twelve years old, Cornelius secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets about reinventing himself--as Professor...
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Author:Soto, GarySummary:Two Mexican American brothers hope that junior college will help them excape their heritage of tedious physical labor.
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Author:Cooney, Caroline B.Summary:At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their...
- Author:Weber, RobbySummary:
Harry, an aspiring screenwriter, wants nothing more than to win the competition that will get him into his dream college. But writing that perfect screen play isn't easy with exes and new love to distract you.
- Author:Dolmage, JaySummary:
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education...
- Author:Allin, LouSummary:
Life at Copper University in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has been good for Professor of Victorian literature Maddie Temple, but the school year is about to get off to a deadly start. Maddie's first day of school is marred by...
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Author:Boles, BlakeSummary:What would you do if you could go to college without going to high school? Would you travel abroad, spend late nights writing a novel, volunteer in an emergency room, or build your own company? What dreams would you be pursuing right...
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Author:Simone, GabbrielSummary:Are you going to college soon? Do you really know what you are getting yourself into? College isn’t just going to class and partying. Well maybe for some, but in reality it is way more than that. You want to be successful? You want to...
