The great mistake : how we wrecked public universities and how we can fix them / Christopher Newfield.
2016
LB2342 .N49 2016 (Mapit)
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Title
The great mistake : how we wrecked public universities and how we can fix them / Christopher Newfield.
ISBN
9781421421629 (hardcover)
1421421623 (hardcover)
9781421421636 (electronic book)
1421421631 (electronic book)
1421421623 (hardcover)
9781421421636 (electronic book)
1421421631 (electronic book)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
xiii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Call Number
LB2342 .N49 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
378/.05
Summary
Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a decade, the realm of American higher education has been wracked with self-doubt and mutual recrimination, with no clear solutions on the horizon. How did this happen? In this stunning new book, Christopher Newfield offers readers an in-depth analysis of the "great mistake" that led to the cycle of decline and dissolution, a mistake that impacts every public college and university in America. What might occur, he asserts, is no less than locked-in economic inequality and the fall of the middle class. In The Great Mistake, Newfield asks how we can fix higher education, given the damage done by private-sector models. The current accepted wisdom-that to succeed, universities should be more like businesses-is dead wrong.
Note
Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a decade, the realm of American higher education has been wracked with self-doubt and mutual recrimination, with no clear solutions on the horizon. How did this happen? In this stunning new book, Christopher Newfield offers readers an in-depth analysis of the "great mistake" that led to the cycle of decline and dissolution, a mistake that impacts every public college and university in America. What might occur, he asserts, is no less than locked-in economic inequality and the fall of the middle class. In The Great Mistake, Newfield asks how we can fix higher education, given the damage done by private-sector models. The current accepted wisdom-that to succeed, universities should be more like businesses-is dead wrong.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Critical university studies.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Holding back public colleges
The price of privatization
The devolutionary cycle
The eight stages of decline
The university retreat from public goods
Subsidizing the outside sponsors
Large, regular tuition hikes
The states cut public funding
Increased student debt, college as burden
Private vendors leverage public funds : the case of the MOOCs
Unequal funding cuts attainment
Universities build the post-middle class
The recovery cycle
Reconstructing the public university.
Holding back public colleges
The price of privatization
The devolutionary cycle
The eight stages of decline
The university retreat from public goods
Subsidizing the outside sponsors
Large, regular tuition hikes
The states cut public funding
Increased student debt, college as burden
Private vendors leverage public funds : the case of the MOOCs
Unequal funding cuts attainment
Universities build the post-middle class
The recovery cycle
Reconstructing the public university.