A remarkable indictment of how misguided business policies have
undermined the American higher education system. Winner of the
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL 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. Newfield combines firsthand
experience with expert analysis to show that private funding and
private-sector methods cannot replace public funding or improve
efficiency, arguing that business-minded practices have increased
costs and gravely damaged the university's value to society. It is
imperative that universities move beyond the destructive policies
that have led them to destabilize their finances, raise tuition,
overbuild facilities, create a national student debt crisis, and
lower educational quality. Laying out an interconnected cycle of
mistakes, from subsidizing the private sector to "the poor get
poorer" funding policies, Newfield clearly demonstrates how
decisions made in government, in the corporate world, and at
colleges themselves contribute to the dismantling of once-great
public higher education. A powerful, hopeful critique of the
unnecessary death spiral of higher education, The Great Mistake is
essential reading for those who wonder why students have been
paying more to get less and for everyone who cares about the role
the higher education system plays in improving the lives of average
Americans.
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