Out Now.

The Farce of Higher Ed
ISBN: 978-1-965843-28-4

This book is not an attack on learning, it is a call for its rescue. Higher education is a place of hope, but at many institutions, its promise is being suffocated by corporate standardization, bureaucratic micromanagement to the extreme, and scripted rubrics that stifle any legitimate sense of creativity and cooperation.

This book exposes why administrative bloat harms classrooms, and how some places have turned human pedagogy into an assembly-line compliance checklist that ultimately arrests students’ growth. Not to mention, they put practices into place that effectively censor professors, directly interfering with instructor-student cooperation. Professor brains have been replaced with rubric checklists, and their mouths replaced with “objective-aligned” teleprompter lines spawned from the belly of the beast.

Micromanaging middle managers have effectively ruined the game, and K-12 education has brainwashed students into being hyper-grade-anxious. Administrative bloat cares more about data points than actual human intellect or lived experiences. They are forcing educators to write “learning objectives” that sound like corporate mission statements—in one ear and out the other—to design lesson plans that look like legal briefs, and to bow down to the almighty rubric designed with ambiguity and fluff. They essentially train teachers to fear administration rather than inspire students. These conditions completely “miss the boat” of what a true educational experience means. Professor Kazan shows you in this book how the system can rebuild.

Higher ed was supposed to be a space for genuine, student-driven inquiry, guided by empowered scholars. This book exposes what happened in the past decade that completely broke the social contract, and it provides explicit solutions.

Whether you are a student, faculty member, administrator, or just a parent thinking about sending your new adult child into higher education, this book is an absolute must-read.

If you want to explore what an education program that pushes for human-centered learning, innovation, creation, and actual critical engagement looks like, instead of run-of-the-mill bureaucratic box-checking, this book is for you.