Binge (eBook)

What Your College Student Won't Tell You

Barrett Seaman (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2005
320 Seiten
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-0-471-73815-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Barrett Seaman reported for Time magazine from five bureaus in the United States and abroad, covering the White House during the Reagan administration and later serving as special projects editor before retiring in 2001. He has been a trustee at Hamilton College, from which he graduated in 1967, since 1989.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.7.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sucht / Drogen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-471-73815-8 / 0471738158
• ISBN-13: 978-0-471-73815-2 / 9780471738152