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Financing Higher Education: Privatization, Resistance And Renewal, Gerald Turkel
Financing Higher Education: Privatization, Resistance And Renewal, Gerald Turkel
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
The fiscal crisis of higher education currently is being resolved largely through a financing policy of privatization, a pattern that increasingly shifts responsibility to individual students and their families. The politics of privatization makes it ever more difficult for lower-income students to attend college and has become a major financial burden for middle-income people. Beyond the direct financial consequences, privatization has increasingly subordinated the research and educational missions of higher education to the countervailing imperatives of economic growth and competitiveness. Privatization has enhanced the entrepreneurial and corporate features of universities and colleges, increasingly shifting the values of higher education away …
Financing Higher Education: Privatization, Resistance, And Renewal, Gerald Turkel
Financing Higher Education: Privatization, Resistance, And Renewal, Gerald Turkel
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
Higher education’s financial crisis is being resolved largely through a politics of privatization, changing patterns of financing that increasingly shift responsibilities to individual students and their families. The politics of privatization makes it ever more difficult for low income students to attend college and has become a major financial burden for middle income people. Beyond cost shifting, privatization has increasingly subordinated the research and educational missions of higher education to imperatives of economic growth and competitiveness. Privatization has enhanced the entrepreneurial and corporate features of universities and colleges, changing the values of higher education away from notions of common property …