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Austerity blues : fighting for the soul of public higher education
- Title
- Austerity blues : fighting for the soul of public higher education / Michael Fabricant & Stephen Brier.
- Author
- Fabricant, Michael
- Publication
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Brier, Stephen, 1946-
- Description
- 310 pages; 24 cm
- 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. 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.
- Subject
- Public universities and colleges > United States > Finance
- Education, Higher > United States > Finance
- Government aid to higher education > United States
- Federal aid to higher education > United States
- Higher education and state > United States
- College costs > United States
- Student loans > United States
- College costs
- Education, Higher > Finance
- Federal aid to higher education
- Government aid to higher education
- Higher education and state
- Public universities and colleges > Finance
- Student loans
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-298) and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-12956
- ISBN
- 9781421420677
- 1421420678
- LCCN
- 2015049916
- OCLC
- 944954828
- Author
- Fabricant, Michael, author.
- Title
- Austerity blues : fighting for the soul of public higher education / Michael Fabricant & Stephen Brier.
- Publisher
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-298) and index.
- Added Author
- Brier, Stephen, 1946- author.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-12956