The great mistake : how we wrecked public universities and how we can fix them /
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...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Critical university studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 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.