Unmaking the public university: the forty-year assault on the middle class
An essential American dream--equal access to higher education--was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after World War II. But this vital American promise has been broken. Christopher Newfield argues that the financial and political crises of public universities are not th...
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| Zusammenfassung: | An essential American dream--equal access to higher education--was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after World War II. But this vital American promise has been broken. Christopher Newfield argues that the financial and political crises of public universities are not the result of economic downturns or of ultimately valuable restructuring, but of a conservative campaign to end public education's democratizing influence on American society. "Unmaking the Public University" is the story of how conservatives have maligned and restructured public universities, deceiving the public to serve their own ends. It is a deep and revealing analysis that is long overdue. Newfield carefully describes how this campaign operated, using extensive research into public university archives. He launches the story with the expansive vision of an equitable and creative America that emerged from the post-war boom in college access, and traces the gradual emergence of the anti-egalitarian "corporate university," practices that ranged from racial policies to research budgeting. Newfield shows that the culture wars have actually been an economic war that a conservative coalition in business, government, and academia have waged on that economically necessary but often independent group, the college-educated middle class. Newfield's research exposes the crucial fact that the culture wars have functioned as a kind of neutron bomb, one that pulverizes the social and culture claims of college grads while leaving their technical expertise untouched. "Unmaking the Public University" incisively sets the record straight, describing a forty-year economic war waged on thecollege-educated public, and awakening us to a vision of social development shared by scientists and humanists alike. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-367) and index |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 395 p. graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 9780674028173 |
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Contents
Introduction
1
I. The Meaning of a Majoritarian Society
1
The Three Crises and the Mass Middle Class
19
2
Declarations of Independence
31
II. Inventing PC: The War on Equality
3
The Discrediting of Social Equality
51
4
The Market Substitute for Cultural Knowledge
68
5
From Affirmative Action to the New Economy
80
6
The Battle for Meritocracy
92
7
Diversity in the Age of
Pseudointegration
107
III. Market Substitutes for General Development
8
Facing the Knowledge Managers
125
9
English's Market Retreat
142
10
The Costs of Accounting
159
11
The Problem with Privatization
173
viii Contents
12
The Failure of
Market
Measures
195
13
Hiding Culture's Contribution
208
14
Half-Suffocated Reforms
220
IV. The New War
—
and After
15
The Blame-
Academia
Crowd: Culture War After
9/11 239
Conclusion: Powers of the
100
Percent
265
Appendix: Flaws of the "Liberal Bias" Campaign
277
Notes
293
Acknowledgments
369
Index
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