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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 …
The Fiscal Crisis Of The Campus: The View From California, R. Jeffrey Lustig
The Fiscal Crisis Of The Campus: The View From California, R. Jeffrey Lustig
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
Over the last generation, state governments have undertaken a major disinvestment in higher education. The questions raised by these funding reductions go beyond matters of crowded classrooms, dilapidated facilities, and altered pedagogies to challenge the basic function of college and university education in the United States. Will higher education continue to be the gateway to equality and provider of broad horizons for citizens, or will it be transformed into a bulwark of social privilege and narrow conveyor of vocational skills for private consumers? These are the ultimate questions posed by the funding priorities of the state legislatures in America today.
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 …