Joshua Travis Brown Published A Book Explaining How Universities Exploit Students
Joshua Travis Brown published a new book, Capitalizing On College: How Higher Education Went From Mission Driven to Margin Obsessed. In the book, Brown explores the state of higher education and how universities utilize students’ money — often from loans — to finance projects.
Brown tells Study Hall, “I go inside tuition-driven colleges and universities to show how the competition for students led to an unsustainable building boom – and what colleges did to pay for it. Forced to innovate, schools adopted enrollment strategies that led them to view the marginalized students they were supposed to be helping as ‘dollars.’ Through over 150 candid interviews I did with university leaders, I provide a timely and fascinating behind-the–scenes look at the financial challenges facing higher education and what the future holds for colleges and universities.”
Brown is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.
His writing has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Journal of American College Health.
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