Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education

by Michael B. Fabricant and Stephen Brier

A generation of budget cutting has eviscerated the very idea of public higher education in America.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421420678
• ISBN13: 9781421420677
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher