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The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them (Critical University Studies),Used
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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 ACRLHigher 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 selfdoubt and mutual recrimination, with no clear solutions on the horizon. How did this happen? In this stunning new book, Christopher Newfield offers readers an indepth 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 lockedin 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 privatesector models. The current accepted wisdomthat to succeed, universities should be more like businessesis dead wrong. Newfield combines firsthand experience with expert analysis to show that private funding and privatesector methods cannot replace public funding or improve efficiency, arguing that businessminded practices have increased costs and gravely damaged the universitys 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 oncegreat 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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