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Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education
Michael Fabricant
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Description for Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JNF; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
561g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421420677
SKU
V9781421420677
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-31
About Michael Fabricant
Michael Fabricant is a professor of social work at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the vice president of CUNY's Professional Staff Congress. He is the author of Organizing for Educational Justice: The Campaign for Public School Reform in the South Bronx and the coauthor of The Changing Politics of Education: Privatization and the Dispossessed Lives Left ... Read more
Reviews for Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education
Austerity Blues is a must read for people engaged in public higher education and an important addition to Critical University Studies.
Radical Teacher
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 ... Read more
Radical Teacher
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 ... Read more