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Austerity Blues Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education / Michael Fabricant and Stephen Brier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fabricant, Michael, author.
- Brier, Stephen, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Student loans--United States.
- Student loans.
- College costs--United States.
- College costs.
- Higher education and state--United States.
- Higher education and state.
- Federal aid to higher education--United States.
- Federal aid to higher education.
- Government aid to higher education--United States.
- Government aid to higher education.
- Education, Higher--United States--Finance.
- Education, Higher.
- Public universities and colleges--United States--Finance.
- Public universities and colleges.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Public higher education in the postwar era was a key economic and social driver in American life, making college available to millions of working men and women. Since the 1980s, however, government austerity policies and politics have severely reduced public investment in higher education, exacerbating inequality among poor and working-class students of color, as well as part-time faculty. In Austerity Blues, Michael Fabricant and Stephen Brier examine these devastating fiscal retrenchments nationally, focusing closely on New York and California, both of which were leaders in the historic expansion of public higher education in the postwar years and now are at the forefront of austerity measures.--publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction; Part I: The Political-Economic Context of Public Higher Education ; 1. Public Assets in an Era of Austerity ; 2. The State Expansion of Public Higher Education ; 3. Students and Faculty Take Command ; Part II: The State of Austerity ; 4. The Making of the Neoliberal Public University ; 5. The Public University as an Engine of Inequality ; 6. Technology as a "Magic Bullet" in an Era of Austerity ; Part III: Resistance Efforts and the Fight for Emancipatory Education ; 7. Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2068-6
- OCLC:
- 959592030
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