Friday, April 14th 2017, from 7-8pm, at Chop Suey Books (2913 West Cary Street, Richmond VA), there will be a book talk and signing with Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of "Lower Ed: the Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy." From the event description:
"More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials. These schools have been around just as long as their bucolic not-for-profit counterparts, yet shockingly little is known about why they have expanded so rapidly in recent years--during the so-called Wall Street era of for-profit colleges. In Lower Ed Tressie McMillan Cottom--a bold and rising public scholar, herself once a recruiter at two for-profit colleges--expertly parses the fraught dynamics of this big-money industry to show precisely how it is part and parcel of the growing inequality plaguing the country today."
Free, open to the public. Parking is available on the street and in various public free parking garages, the nearest being located at 18 South Colonial Avenue. For more information and to RSVP, see this link.
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