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Subject(s)

• Public universities and colleges—United States—Finance [Browse]
• Education, Higher—Aims and objectives—United States [Browse]
• Higher education and state—United States [Browse]
• Privatization in education—United States [Browse]

Series

Critical university studies [More in this series]

Summary 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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-414) and index.

Contents

• Holding back public colleges
• The price of privatization
• The devolutionary cycle
• 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
• Reconstructing the public university.

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Other title(s)

How we wrecked public universities and how we can fix them

ISBN

• 9781421427034
• 1421427036
• 9781421421629 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 1421421623 ((hardcoever ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016012781

OCLC

947074818

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