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Unmaking the public university :

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0674028171

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0674060369

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9780674028173

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Unmaking the public university :

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[Book]

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the forty-year assault on the middle class /

First Statement of Responsibility

Christopher Newfield.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Mass. :

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Harvard University Press,

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2008.

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viii, 395 pages :

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illustrations ;

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24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-367) and index.

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Part I. The meaning of a majoritarian society. 1. The three crises and the mass middle class. 2. Declarations of independence. -- Part II. Inventing PC: the war on equality. 3. The discrediting of social equality. 4. The market substitute for cultural knowledge. 5. From affirmative action to the new economy. 6. The battle for meritocracy. 7. Diversity in the age of pseudo-integration. -- Part III. Market substitutes for general development. 8. Facing the knowledge managers. 9. English's market retreat. 10. The costs of accounting. 11. The problem with privatization. 12. The failure of market measures. 13. Hiding culture's contribution. 14. Half-suffocated reforms -- Part IV. The new war--and after. 15. The blame-academia crowd : culture war after 9/11. Conclusion : Powers of the 100 percent.

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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.

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Middle class-- United States.

Public universities and colleges-- United States.

Social mobility-- United States.

Chancengleichheit.

Hochschule.

Högskolor-- Förenta staterna.

Medelklassen-- Förenta staterna.

Middle class.

Mittelstand.

Public universities and colleges.

Social mobility.

Social rörlighet-- Förenta staterna.

Soziale Schichtung.

Universitet-- Förenta staterna.

United States.

USA.

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Newfield, Christopher.

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20201208115713.0

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