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What's public about public higher ed? : halting higher education's decline in the court of public opinion /

An unflinching, no-holds-barred exploration of what citizens really think about their public universities, What's Public about Public Higher Ed? places special emphasis on the events of 2020--including the COVID-19 pandemic and the worst racial unrest seen in half a century--as major inflection...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Gavazzi, Stephen M. (Autor), Gee, E. Gordon (Elwood Gordon), 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Opportunities and Threats to Higher Education
  • 2. What Citizens Think about Their State's Public Universities: Steps toward Ground Truthing
  • 3. Public Funding for Teaching, Research, and Community Engagement
  • 4. Focusing Attention on Rural and Urban Communities
  • 5. Global Footprint versus Closer to Home
  • 6. Merit-Based Aid and Needs-Based Aid for Students
  • 7. National Rankings: The Scourge of Higher Education
  • 8. Jobs and Politics and Sports, Oh My!
  • 9. Disdain the Beaten Path: The Year 2020 as a Turning Point for the American Public University
  • Appendixes
  • 1. Study Survey
  • 2. Multivariate Tests
  • 3. Tests of Between-Subjects Effects
  • 4. Multiple Comparisons
  • Notes
  • Index.