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What's happening to public higher education?

Title: What's happening to public higher education? / edited by Ronald G. Ehrenberg.
Publication: West, Westport, CT : Praeger Publishers, 2006.

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Ehrenberg, Ronald G.

Description

xxii, 381 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Ehrenberg (industrial and labor relations and economics, Cornell U.) joins higher education researchers, policy analysts, and administrators from universities in the US, who discuss the state of public higher education in 14 revised papers (plus two new ones to this volume) from a conference, "Assessing Public Higher Education at the Start of the 21st Century," at the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute in May of 2005. Citing the decrease in state funding as a major influence, they examine changes in the past 30 years, why they occurred, and their effect on graduation rates, as well as the importance of tenured faculty, the impact of more adjunct instructors, and experiences in 10 individual states. The final section examines the "privatization" of public universities, and what types of federal policies need to be put in place. Two of the papers have been published previously in other versions.

Series Statement

American Council on Education/Praeger series on higher education

Uniform Title

American Council on Education/Praeger series on higher education.

Alternative Title

What is happening to public higher education?

Subject

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-361) and index.

Contents

Setting the stage. State preferences for higher education spending: a panel data analysis, 1977-2001 / Michael J. Rizzo -- Do tenured and tenure-track faculty matter? / Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Liang Zhang -- The increasing use of adjunct instructors at public institutions: are we hurting students? / Eric P. Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long -- The effect of institutional funding cuts on baccalaureate graduation rates in public higher education / Gary L. Blose, John D. Porter, and Edward C. Kokkelenberg -- Individual state experiences. The effects of a changing financial context on the University of California / Gerald R. Kissler and Ellen Switkes -- Assessing public higher education in Georgia at the start of the twenty-first century / Christopher Cornwell and David B. Mustard -- Changing priorities and the evolution of public higher education finance in Illinois / F. King Alexander and Daniel Layzell -- Michigan public higher education: recent trends and policy considerations for the coming decade / Stephen L. DesJardins, Allison Bell, and Iria Puyosa -- North Carolina's commitment to higher education: access and affordability / Betsy E. Brown and Robert L. Clark -- State support for public higher education in Pennsylvania / Donald E. Heller -- The changing accessibility, affordability, and quality of higher education in Texas / Lisa M. Dickson -- Higher tuition, higher aid, and the quest to improve opportunities for low-income students: the case of Virginia / Sarah Turner -- Public higher education in Washington state: aspirations are misaligned with fiscal structure and politics / William Zumeta -- Consequences of a legacy of state disinvestment: plunging state support reduces access and threatens quality at University of Wisconsin system institutions / David W. Olien -- Looking to the future. -- Why we won't see any public universities "going private" / John D. Wiley -- Concluding remarks / F. King Alexander.

ISBN

0275985032
9780275985035

LCCN

2006002757
9780275985035

OCLC

ocm63277693
63277693
SCSB-8904178

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Princeton University Library