The Great Mistake

How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them

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ID23398991
AuthorsChristopher Newfield (0000-0002-4933-6977, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages430
Publication date2018-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byThe great mistake: How we wrecked public universities and how we can fix them, J Welsh, 2017
VenueThe great mistake (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.56021/9781421421629
OpenAlexW4312976949
Open LibraryOL27226472M
ISBN9781421421629
LanguageEN
Citations received89

Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a decade, the realm of American higher education has been wracked with self-doubt and mutual recrimination, with no clear solutions on the horizon. How did this happen? In this stunning new book, Christopher Newfield offers readers an in-depth analysis of the "great mistake" that led to the cycle of decline and dissolution, a mistake that impacts every public college and university in America. What might occur, he asserts, is no less than locked-in economic inequality and the fall of the middle class. In The Great Mistake, Newfield asks how we can fix higher education, given the damage done by private-sector models. The current accepted wisdom-that to succeed, universities should be more like businesses-is dead wrong.

Mistake · Political science · Educational Leadership and Practices · Law · Legal case studies and regulations · Legal Cases and Commentary · Aims and objectives · Education · Finance · higher · Higher Education · Higher education and state · higher, aims and objectives · Privatization in education · Public universities and colleges · united states · Universities and colleges

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