Austerity blues : fighting for the soul of public higher education /

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Author / Creator:Fabricant, Michael, author.
Imprint:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (310 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12016952
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Other authors / contributors:Brier, Stephen, 1946- author.
ISBN:1421420686
9781421420684
9781421420677
1421420678
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 29, 2016).
Summary: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.--publisher.
Other form:Print version: Austerity blues : fighting for the soul of public higher education. Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2016 310 pages 9781421420677