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Best Of: 'Monsters' Illustrator Emil Ferris / The 'Risk' Of For-Profit Colleges

Best Of: 'Monsters' Illustrator Emil Ferris / The 'Risk' Of For-Profit Colleges

Released Saturday, 1st April 2017
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Best Of: 'Monsters' Illustrator Emil Ferris / The 'Risk' Of For-Profit Colleges

Best Of: 'Monsters' Illustrator Emil Ferris / The 'Risk' Of For-Profit Colleges

Best Of: 'Monsters' Illustrator Emil Ferris / The 'Risk' Of For-Profit Colleges

Best Of: 'Monsters' Illustrator Emil Ferris / The 'Risk' Of For-Profit Colleges

Saturday, 1st April 2017
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After West Nile virus left her paralyzed, Chicago illustrator Emil Ferris had to relearn how to draw. She says that experience was key to the creation of her first graphic novel, 'My Favorite Thing Is Monsters.' Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews 'The Devil and Webster.' Tressie McMillan Cottom worked as an enrollment officer at two for-profit colleges, but quit because she felt uncomfortable selling students an education they couldn't afford. She says that for-profit colleges can exploit racial, gender and economic inequality. Her book is 'Lower Ed.'
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