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The Coming Death and Future Resurrection of American Higher Education, Dr. Richard Bishirjian describes how, beginning in 2000, he founded Yorktown University and immediately confronted barriers designed to block entrance of his University from operating as a low cost, regionally accredited, high tech, Internet university.
Dr. Richard Bishirjian’s book is a Cri de Coeur in which he passionately criticizes the higher education Establishment and laments the loss of millions of dollars of investor’s equity and twelve years of work and sacrifice.
Unlike any other study of American higher education, Bishirjian tells all, names names, and exposes how the education Establishment imposes tuition costs that force parents and students into crippling debt.
All is not lost, however. The experience of founding and operating a high technology university enables him to reveal this about American Higher Education:
1. How Tuition Debt is Hurting our College Students
2. Why American Higher Education operates as a Cartel
3. The Terrible Cost of Accreditation and U.S. Government Regulations
4. How “Regional Accreditation” Assures “Creative Destruction”
5. Why One Thousand Colleges may be Forced to Close by 2022
6. The Destructive Growth of Federal Control of Higher Education
7. The South’s “Legacy of Suppression” in regulating Higher Education
8. How “Smart Money” Bought Colleges and Why They left the U.S.
9. How U.S. Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings, destroyed the Liberal Arts
10. How Robert Shireman made For-Profit Higher Education a “Class Enemy
11. How Little it Costs to create an Internet University
12. Differences between Distance and. Classroom Learning
13. Thirteen Ways to reform American Higher Education
Table of ContentsPreface
- Why American Higher Education is Dying
- The College Tuition Debt Time Bomb
- Why Higher Education Cannot Adapt
- For-Profit Higher Education as “Class Enemy”
- Creation of an Education Entrepreneur
- Origins of Yorktown University
- Distance vs. Classroom Education
- The Role of the States in Higher Education Regulation
- Colorado Here We Come!
- The Role of Accreditation
- The Federal Government and Higher Education
- “Smart Money” and Higher Education
- What it Costs to Enter the Higher Education Marketplace
- Fighting the Higher Education Establishment
- Resurrection--Thirteen Ways to Reform
- American Higher Education End Notes
- Appendix
A: Response to SCHEV, March 10, 2003
B: Robert Shireman, Speech to NASASPS, April 28, 2010
C: Public Employees by State (2014)
D: “Value Neutral” words in Learning Outcomes
E: About the Author
