Poisoning the Ivy: The Seven Deadly Sins and Other Vices of Higher Education in America

By Michael Lewis

Anyone who teaches in American higher education realizes that "the Academy" has significant and pervasive problems in its self-governance, effectiveness and in according value for soaring costs. This is an account of what, according to the author, ails America's universities and colleges.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765600714
• ISBN13: 9780765600714
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Here's a book Sociology Graduate Students need to read.

Michael Lewis (theSociologist, not the Developmental Psychologist) is less concerned about hurting our collective feelings and sensibilities than convincing us that higher education is in severe trouble. One basic theme: the Professor wants the "lifestyle" but too often rejects the work and the moral responsibility that accompanies the position. The book's irony is it makes readers (especially the deeply offended ones) either "ready for action" to make a better Academy or "ready to quit." Although many of us feel insulted and indicted we are also grateful for the courage shown by Lewis to communicate the unpopular problems.