The great mistake : how we wrecked public universities and how we can fix them / Christopher Newfield.
Series: Critical university studiesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]Description: xiii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781421421629 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781421427034 (paperback)
- 1421421623 (hardcoever : alk paper)
- 378/.05 23
- LB2342 .N49 2016
Contents:
Title Notes:
Introduction : the great mistake -- Holding back public colleges -- The price of privatization -- The devolutionary cycle -- The eight stages of decline -- The university retreat from public goods -- Subsidizing the private sector -- Large, regular tuition hikes -- The states cut public funding -- Growing student debt -- Private vendors leverage public funds -- Unequal funding cuts attainment -- Universities build the post-middle class -- The recovery cycle.
Includes bibliographical references and index.