Fail U: the false promise of higher education

Part I. I told you so

Introduction: Scenes from a graduation

1. Bursting the college bubble

2. Déjà vu: ProfScam twenty-eight years later

Part II. The college bubble

3. The (escalating) flight from teaching

4. the reality of academic research

5. What do students learn (and does anybody care)?

6. the college for all delusion

Part III. Bloat

7. Our bloated colleges

8. Academia's edifice bloat

Part IV. Junk scholarship, hoaxes, and scandals

9. Does the Emperor have any clothes?

10. A scandal reconsidered

Part V. Victim U. (trigger warning)

11. Grievance U.

12. Rape U.

Part VI. Is this time different?

13. Time for a bailout?

14. Netflix U.

15. Smaller, fewer, less.