Austerity blues : fighting for the soul of public higher education /
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, exacerbat...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2016]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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.--publisher. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (310 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1421420686 9781421420684 9781421420677 1421420678 |