Binge: Campus Life in an Age of Disconnection and Excess : What Your College Student Won't Tell You - Brossura

Seaman, Barrett

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ISBN 10: 0470049189 ISBN 13: 9780470049181

Casa editrice: Turner Pub Co, 2006

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

"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)

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Turner Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0470049189
• ISBN 13: 9780470049181
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320