The author believes college boards of trustees will eventually be replaced.

The author believes college boards of trustees will eventually be replaced.
Paul Streitz takes a provocative look at one of the most severe problems facing middle-class parents: the high cost of college education in his new book, "The Great American College Tuition Rip-off."
His book claims that constantly rising tuition is not caused by any increase in expenses, but because parents are willing to spend more. "If there is a line at the doughnut store for your doughnuts, and it doesn't go down when you raise prices, you just keep raising them," he says.
The author chronicles the wasteful practices of the colleges including professors teaching six hours of classes per week, the growth in the number of administrators and the creation of political entities such as Hamilton's Kirkland Project, which invited the now infamous Ward Churchill to speak.
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Streitz proposes that parents, students and alumni organize and collectively bargain with the administrations. He sees that the boards of trustees will eventually be replaced by a means of governance that represent the students, parents and alumni. "The board of trustees is a group of wealthy, aristocratic alumni who represent no one, are responsible to no one, and have done a terrible job for 20 years. The boards must be removed as the governing entity."
Streitz's other works include being the co-author of the musicals, "OH, JOHNNY" and "Madison Avenue," the subliminal musical. He is the author of a controversial biography of "Shakespeare: Oxford: Son of Queen Elizabeth I."
His next book, due out this fall, says the United States must go back to the protectionist economic policies of Alexander Hamilton.
Streitz attended Colonie grammar and high schools and graduated from Mohawk High School in Mohawk, N.Y. He is a graduate of Hamilton College. He was with the 82nd Airborne as a platoon leader in Vietnam. He then obtained an MBA from the University of Chicago Business School. He has spent his career in marketing and advertising in New York City. He recently ran for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Connecticut. He lives in Darien, Conn., with his wife and daughter.