Austerity Blues Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education

Michael Fabricant, "Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education"
English | ISBN: 1421420678 | 2016 | 320 pages | EPUB | 1148 KB
A generation of budget cutting has eviscerated the very idea of public higher education in America.

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
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