The great mistake : how we wrecked public universities and how we can fix them / Christopher Newfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newfield, Christopher, author.

Series:

Critical university studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public universities and colleges--United States--Finance.

Public universities and colleges.

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

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Finance.

United States.

Higher education and state--United States.

Higher education and state.

Privatization in education--United States.

Privatization in education.

Public universities and colleges--Finance.

Physical Description:

xiii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781421421629

1421421623

OCLC:

947074818