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03942aam a2200493 i 4500 001 25EA6FF86EA311E79084E9F2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170722010050 008 160225t20162016mdu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015049916 020 $a 1421420678 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781421420677 (hardcover : alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCF $d BDX $d ERASA $d GZN $d YDX $d GZM $d NYP $d TTS $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a LB2342 $b .F34 2016 082 00 $a 378/.05 $2 23 100 1 $a Fabricant, Michael, $e author. 245 10 $a Austerity blues : $b fighting for the soul of public higher education / $c Michael Fabricant & Stephen Brier. 264 1 $a Baltimore, Maryland : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a 310 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-298) and index. 505 0 $a Public assets in an era of austerity -- The state expansion of public higher education -- Students and faculty take command -- The making of the neoliberal public university -- The public university as an engine of inequality -- Technology as a "magic bullet" in an era of austerity -- Fighting for the soul of public higher education -- Epilogue. 520 8 $a 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. Fabricant and Brier describe the extraordinary growth of public higher education after 1945, thanks largely to state investment, the alternative intellectual and political traditions that defined the 1960s, and the social and economic forces that produced austerity policies and inequality beginning in the late 1970s and 1980s. Over the past twenty years, tuition and related student debt have climbed precipitously and degree completion rates have dropped. Not only has this new austerity threatened public universities' ability to educate students, Fabricant and Brier argue, but it also threatens to undermine the very meaning and purpose of public higher education in offering poor and working-class students access to a quality education in a democracy. 650 0 $a Public universities and colleges $z United States $x Finance. 650 0 $a Education, Higher $z United States $x Finance. 650 0 $a Government aid to higher education $z United States. 650 0 $a Federal aid to higher education $z United States. 650 0 $a Higher education and state $z United States. 650 0 $a College costs $z United States. 650 0 $a Student loans $z United States. 650 7 $a College costs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00867748 650 7 $a Education, Higher $x Finance. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00903056 650 7 $a Federal aid to higher education. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00922204 650 7 $a Government aid to higher education. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00945154 650 7 $a Higher education and state. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00956548 650 7 $a Public universities and colleges $x Finance. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01083114 650 7 $a Student loans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01431545 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 700 1 $a Brier, Stephen, $d 1946- $e author. 941 $a 2 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20170902010020.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20170722010805.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=25EA6FF86EA311E79084E9F2DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search