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008			160225s2016 mdu b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781421420677 _q(hardcover ; _qalk. paper)
020			_z9781421420684 _q(electronic)
020			_a1421420678 _q(hardcover ; _qalk. paper)
020			_z1421420686 _q(electronic)
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050	0	0	_aLB2342 _b.F34 2016
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100	1		_aFabricant, Michael,
245	1	0	_aAusterity blues : _bfighting for the soul of public higher education / _cMichael Fabricant and Stephen Brier.
264		1	_aBaltimore, Maryland : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c2016.
300			_a310 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520	8		_aPublic 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. Fabricant and Brier describe the extraordinary growth of public higher education after 1945, thanks largely to state investment, the alternative intellectual and political traditions that defined the 1960s, and the social and economic forces that produced austerity policies and inequality beginning in the late 1970s and 1980s. Over the past twenty years, tuition and related student debt have climbed precipitously and degree completion rates have dropped. Not only has this new austerity threatened public universities' ability to educate students, Fabricant and Brier argue, but it also threatens to undermine the very meaning and purpose of public higher education in offering poor and working-class students access to a quality education in a democracy.
650		0	_aPublic universities and colleges _zUnited States _xFinance.
650		0	_aEducation, Higher _zUnited States _xFinance.
650		0	_aGovernment aid to higher education _zUnited States.
650		0	_aFederal aid to higher education _zUnited States.
650		0	_aHigher education and state _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCollege costs _zUnited States.
650		0	_aStudent loans _zUnited States.
700	1		_aBrier, Stephen, _d1946-
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