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- Brier, Stephen
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- 9781421420677
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- 1421420678
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- Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education
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- Austerity Blues : Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education
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- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Education, Study Aids, Political Science
- Topic
- Public Policy / General, Educational Policy & Reform / Federal Legislation, Higher, Financial Aid, Administration / Higher
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- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 20 oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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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. A provocative indictment of the negative impact neoliberal policies have visited on the public university, especially the growth of class, racial, and gender inequalities, Austerity Blues also analyzes the many changes currently sweeping public higher education, including the growing use of educational technology, online learning, and privatization, while exploring how these developments hurt students and teachers. In its final section, the book offers examples of oppositional and emancipatory struggles and practices that can help reimagine public higher education in the future. The ways in which factors as diverse as online learning, privatization, and disinvestment cohere into a single powerful force driving deepening inequality is the central theme of the book. Incorporating the differing perspectives of students, faculty members, and administrators, the book reveals how public education has been redefined as a private benefit, often outsourced to for-profit vendors who "sell" education back to indebted undergraduates. 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. Synthesizing historical sources, social science research, and contemporary reportage, Austerity Blues will be of interest to readers concerned about rising inequality and the decline of public higher education.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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1421420678
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9781421420677
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Book Title
Austerity Blues : Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / General, Educational Policy & Reform / Federal Legislation, Higher, Financial Aid, Administration / Higher
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Genre
Education, Study Aids, Political Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
20 oz
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Reviews
Austerity Blues is a must read for people engaged in public higher education and an important addition to Critical University Studies., "They [Michael Fabricant and Stephen Brier.] draw on a wealth of scholarship and journalism across several disciplines and topics, uniting and analyzing phenomena often examined in detailed isolation. These include the broad structural factors shaping public higher education, the incentives that influence university-level decision making, the ways that austerity policies intensify inequality within university systems, and the role of technology in all of these processes. The resulting synthesis reveals the long history and present extent of the impoverishment of public higher education, and what it will take to "protect the public university as a democratic experiment firmly planted in the public commons."", " Austerity Blues raises many crucial questions about the purposes of public higher education, pervasive (and growing) inequality, and the consequences of divestment and austerity politics. Most importantly, it ends by asking: "What's next?" And in that question, it urges each one of us to individually and collectively think about the future and our contribution to that future.", "" Austerity Blues raises many crucial questions about the purposes of public higher education, pervasive (and growing) inequality, and the consequences of divestment and austerity politics. Most importantly, it ends by asking: ""What's next?"" And in that question, it urges each one of us to individually and collectively think about the future and our contribution to that future."", Austerity Blues leaves readers wanting to know more about the forces that have facilitated this trend... Fabricant and Brier's analysis raises important questions about the kinds of political change that will be necessary to reverse the austerity policies that they describe and what it will take to realize those changes. As such, this book establishes a powerful agenda for future research.
Table of Content
Introduction Part I: The Political-Economic Context of Public Higher Education Chapter 1: Public Assets in an Era of Austerity Deregulation, Disinvestment, and Degradation Six Propositions for Understanding the Restructuring of Public Higher Education Economic Crisis and the Capitalization of Public Goods The Radical Restructuring of Public Higher Education Chapter 2: The State Expansion of Public Higher Education The G.I. Bill The Presidential Panel on Higher Education Public Higher Education in California, New York, and Beyond The Founding and Expansion of SUNY and the Status of New York City's Municipal Colleges The California Master Plan for Higher Education Chapter 3: Students and Faculty Take Command New York State, CUNY and the Struggle for Open Admissions- The Multiversity and the Student Movement The Fate of Open Admissions Part II: The State of Austerity Chapter 4: The Making of the Neoliberal Public University Neoliberal Reform I: Corporatizing University Culture Neoliberal Reform II: The Perfect Storm of Online Technology and the Commodification of Knowledge Elite Politics and Economics The Curricula of Austerity Technology as the Tool of Austerity Managers College Readiness, Low Graduation Rates, and Fiscal Starvation Resetting Course: Investing in Disposable Citizens Chapter 5: The Public University as an Engine of Inequality Unequal Investments in Public Higher Education Cheapening Public Higher Education Qualitative Shifts in the Experience of Public Higher Education The Ascent of For-Profit Colleges Accountability in an Era of Austerity Cheap Part-time Labor as an Austerity Fix Managing Public Universities in a Time of Inverted Priorities Chapter 6: Technology as a ""Magic Bullet"" in an Era of Austerity Expanding Beyond Classroom Instruction The Emergence of Digital Technology The Rise of DigitalU The Open Educational Resources Movement The Khan Academy MOOCs and the Reshaping of Public Higher Education Neoliberal Reformer: Michael Crow and the ""New American University"" Part III: Resistance Efforts and the Fight for Emancipatory Education Chapter 7: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education Restructuring, Abandonment, and Dissolution The Struggle Over Purposes and Practices Achieving Emancipatory Education What Types of Strategic Investments Are Needed? Building a Better Knowledge Production Workforce Where Should Public Higher Education Be Situated? Deploying Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning Political Choice and Struggle Fault Lines in Current Struggles Grassroots Struggles and Educational Policy Reforms: Student Debt and the Choice to Strike Free Tuition and Community Colleges Increasing Wages and Job Protections for Part-Time Faculty Cross-Sector Campaigns and Increased Investment Sustaining and Expanding Universal Access Resisting Curricular Dilution Scaling Up and Drilling Down Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index, Introduction Part I: The Political-Economic Context of Public Higher Education Chapter 1: Public Assets in an Era of Austerity Deregulation, Disinvestment, and Degradation Six Propositions for Understanding the Restructuring of Public Higher Education Economic Crisis and the Capitalization of Public Goods The Radical Restructuring of Public Higher Education Chapter 2: The State Expansion of Public Higher Education The G.I. Bill The Presidential Panel on Higher Education Public Higher Education in California, New York, and Beyond The Founding and Expansion of SUNY and the Status of New York City's Municipal Colleges The California Master Plan for Higher Education Chapter 3: Students and Faculty Take Command New York State, CUNY and the Struggle for Open Admissions- The Multiversity and the Student Movement The Fate of Open Admissions Part II: The State of Austerity Chapter 4: The Making of the Neoliberal Public University Neoliberal Reform I: Corporatizing University Culture Neoliberal Reform II: The Perfect Storm of Online Technology and the Commodification of Knowledge Elite Politics and Economics The Curricula of Austerity Technology as the Tool of Austerity Managers College Readiness, Low Graduation Rates, and Fiscal Starvation Resetting Course: Investing in Disposable Citizens Chapter 5: The Public University as an Engine of Inequality Unequal Investments in Public Higher Education Cheapening Public Higher Education Qualitative Shifts in the Experience of Public Higher Education The Ascent of For-Profit Colleges Accountability in an Era of Austerity Cheap Part-time Labor as an Austerity Fix Managing Public Universities in a Time of Inverted Priorities Chapter 6: Technology as a "Magic Bullet" in an Era of Austerity Expanding Beyond Classroom Instruction The Emergence of Digital Technology The Rise of DigitalU The Open Educational Resources Movement The Khan Academy MOOCs and the Reshaping of Public Higher Education Neoliberal Reformer: Michael Crow and the "New American University" Part III: Resistance Efforts and the Fight for Emancipatory Education Chapter 7: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education Restructuring, Abandonment, and Dissolution The Struggle Over Purposes and Practices Achieving Emancipatory Education What Types of Strategic Investments Are Needed? Building a Better Knowledge Production Workforce Where Should Public Higher Education Be Situated? Deploying Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning Political Choice and Struggle Fault Lines in Current Struggles Grassroots Struggles and Educational Policy Reforms: Student Debt and the Choice to Strike Free Tuition and Community Colleges Increasing Wages and Job Protections for Part-Time Faculty Cross-Sector Campaigns and Increased Investment Sustaining and Expanding Universal Access Resisting Curricular Dilution Scaling Up and Drilling Down Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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