This collection brings together essays to address the crisis of
Higher Education today, focusing on its neoliberalization. Higher
Education has been under assault for several decades as
neoliberalism's preference for market-based reforms sweeps across
the US political economy. The recent push for neoliberalizing the
academy comes at a time when it is ripe for change, especially as
it continues to confront growing financial pressure, particularly
in the public sector. The resulting cutbacks in public funding,
especially to state universities, led to a variety of debilitating
changes: increases in tuition, growing student debt, more students
combining working and schooling, declining graduation rates for
minorities and low-income students, increased reliance on adjuncts
and temporary faculty, and most recently growing interest in mass
processing of students via online instruction. While many serious
questions arise once we begin to examine what is happening in
higher education today, one particularly critical question concerns
the implications of these changes on the relationship of education
to as yet still unrealized democratic ideals. The 12 essays
collected in this volume create important resources for students,
faculty, citizens and policymakers who want to find ways to address
contemporary threats to the higher education-democracy connection.
This book was originally published as a special issue of New
Political Science.
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