"State universities have been established as bold testament to the democratic belief that, regardless of students' race, status, or economic condition, the doors of learning and promise will be opened equally to all with the wit and will to master the challenge. But the universities don't always operate that way." (Gene Nichol)
Christopher Newfield, in his new book, Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class, writes about how certain myths exacerbate the financial plight of those institutions. Newfield, a professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, talks about his book in an article in the current Chronicle of Higher Education. He claims that the crises threatening public universities are not primarily the result of economic downturns or altered cost structures. They stem, according to Newfield, from a conservative-led campaign to end higher education's democratizing influence on the nation.
Source: Gene Nichol's and Christopher Newfield's articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education
No comments:
Post a Comment