In addition to possessing the world's largest economies, China and
the United States have extensive higher education systems
comparable in size. By juxtaposing their long and distinctive
educational traditions, Palace of Ashes offers compelling evidence
that American colleges and universities are quickly falling behind
in measures such as scholarly output and the granting of doctoral
degrees in STEM fields. China, in contrast, has massed formidable
economic power in support of its universities in an attempt to
create the best educational system in the world. Palace of Ashes
argues that the overall quality of US institutions of higher
learning has declined over the last three decades. Mark S Ferrara
places that decline in a broad historical context to illustrate how
the forces of globalization are helping rapidly developing Asian
nations-particularly China-transform their major universities into
serious contenders for the world's students, faculty, and
resources. Ferrara finds that American institutions have been
harmed by many factors, including chronic state and federal
defunding, unsustainable tuition growth, the adoption of corporate
governance models, adjunctification, and the overall decline of
humanities education relative to job-related training. Ferrara
concludes with several key recommendations to help US universities
counter these trends and restore the palace of American higher
learning.
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