American higher education in crisis? : what everyone needs to know / Goldie Blumenstyk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blumenstyk, Goldie.

Series:

What everyone needs to know

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--United States.

Education, Higher.

United States.

Universities and colleges--United States.

Universities and colleges.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Physical Description:

xvii, 198 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Summary:

American higher education is at a crossroads. Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices, and student debt has reached an all-time high. Americans are questioning the worth of a college education, even as studies continue to show how important it is to economic and social mobility. In this concise primer, Goldie Blumenstyk guides readers through the forces and trends that have brought the education system to this point, highlighting current debates about the value of a degree, problems of affordability and the growing racial and economic divide, and questions of faculty tenure and administrative bloat. Yet Blumenstyk also shows that solutions have begun to emerge. She reveals how institutions are responding to the rise of alternative-education opportunities, considers how the government and public organizations are working to address questions of cost, diversity, and academic integrity; and offers a look at promising innovations that may alter higher education in the immediate future. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part one: students

Part two: Costs, spending, and debt

Part two: Who's in charge? Leadership pressures, from within and without

Part four: What's ahead.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199374083

0199374082

9780199374090

0199374090

OCLC:

879527842