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Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess

Autor Barrett Seaman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 sep 2006
In Binge, Barrett Seaman reveals what every parent, student, and educator needs to know about the college experience. Seaman spent time with students at twelve highly regarded and diverse colleges and universities across North America­. During his two years of research, he immersed himself in the lives of the students, often living in their dorms, dining with them, speaking with them on their own terms, and listening to them express their thoughts and feelings. Portraying a campus culture in which today s best and brightest students grapple with far more than academic challenges, Binge conveys the unprecedented stresses on campus today. While sharing revealing interviews and the often dramatic stories, Seaman explores the complexities of romantic relationships and sexual relations, alcohol and drug use, anxiety and depression, class and racial boundaries, and more. Despite the disturbing trends, Seaman finds reasons for optimism and offers provocative and well–informed suggestions for improving the undergraduate experience. Sometimes alarming, always fascinating, and ultimately hopeful, Binge is an extraordinary investigative work that reveals the realities of higher education today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780470049181
ISBN-10: 0470049189
Pagini: 310
Dimensiuni: 157 x 232 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States

Public țintă

Parents, students and teachers.

Descriere

"Amid all the talk about what life is like on college campuses, Barrett Seaman has done something very valuable: he actually went out and reported what really is happening. From sex to drugs to studying, he provides a fascinating and reliable report that every parent ought to read carefully."
Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life "Binge is an important book written with the insight and passion of a college trustee and the objectivity and eloquence of a veteran journalist. Seaman′s comprehensive recommendations are logical, sensible, and ambitious. If heeded, they should be a major catalyst for change."
Eugene M. Tobin, Program Officer for the Liberal Arts Colleges Program at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Just how hard are students studying? Has diversity worked on campus? What′s the "right" drinking age? How can parents help or hurt their child′s chances for success? Barrett Seaman embarked on a two–year investigation of colleges and universities across North America to answer these and other questions about the real story of campus life today. In Binge, he reveals what every parent, student, and educator needs to know about the disturbing trends from depression and substance abuse to racial tension and isolation as well as the reasons for optimism. Offering provocative, well–informed suggestions for improving the undergraduate experience, Binge is an extraordinary investigative work that lays bare the realities of higher education.

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"Amid all the talk about what life is like on college campuses, Barrett Seaman has done something very valuable: he actually went out and reported what really is happening. From sex to drugs to studying, he provides a fascinating and reliable report that every parent ought to read carefully."
Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life "Binge is an important book written with the insight and passion of a college trustee and the objectivity and eloquence of a veteran journalist. Seaman′s comprehensive recommendations are logical, sensible, and ambitious. If heeded, they should be a major catalyst for change."
Eugene M. Tobin, Program Officer for the Liberal Arts Colleges Program at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Just how hard are students studying? Has diversity worked on campus? What′s the "right" drinking age? How can parents help or hurt their child′s chances for success? Barrett Seaman embarked on a two–year investigation of colleges and universities across North America to answer these and other questions about the real story of campus life today. In Binge, he reveals what every parent, student, and educator needs to know about the disturbing trends from depression and substance abuse to racial tension and isolation as well as the reasons for optimism. Offering provocative, well–informed suggestions for improving the undergraduate experience, Binge is an extraordinary investigative work that lays bare the realities of higher education.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments. Introduction.
1 Daily Res Life.
2 Hooking Up: Sex on Campus.
3 How Hard Are Students Studying?
4 Emotional Troubles.
5 The College Alcohol Crisis.
6 The Date Rape Dilemma.
7 Is Diversity Working?
8 Fraternities and Sororities under Siege.
9 The Morphing Drug Scene.
10 College Sports and Res Life.
11 What s the Right Drinking Age?
12 Who s in Charge?
13 Improving the Undergraduate Experience.
Notes.
Index.

Recenzii

"Parents eager for a sense of what their college–age children′s lives are really like could look at Binge: What Your College Student Won′t Tell You, by Barrett Seaman." from "Going Native" by Charles McGrath (The New York Times, November 6, 2005)

Notă biografică

BARRETT SEAMAN was a correspondent and editor for Time magazine for thirty years; he covered the White House during the Reagan administration and later served as special projects editor before retiring in 2001. He is now a trustee at Hamilton College. Seaman has appeared on the Today show and The Charlie Rose Show.