Who Killed Higher Education?: Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era

ISBN-13: 9781032054407 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 258 str.

Edna B. Chun; Joe Feagin

Opis

Who Killed Higher Education?: Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era offers a probing and unvarnished look at the causes of the progressive state defunding of public higher education over the last seven decades.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Link Between Higher Education and Democracy: A Long History  2. Neoliberalism as a Dominant and Destructive Discourse: Diminishing State Support for Public Education  3. Political-Economic Stealth Agendas: The Koch Brothers and Their Allies  4. Political-Economic Stealth Agendas: Edward Blum and Robert Mercer  5. The Perils of Academic Capitalism for Public Higher Education  6. The Pandemic and Beyond: Implications for Higher Education’s Future  7. Moving Forward: Recommendations for Change