Christopher Newfield is a professor of literature and American studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. He is the author of Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class and Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980.

• AcknowledgmentsPart IHolding Back Public CollegesThe Price of PrivatizationThe Devolutionary CyclePart IIStage 1 The University Retreat from Public GoodsStage 2 Subsidizing the Outside SponsorsStage 3 Large, Regular Tuition HikesStage 4 The States Cut Public FundingStage 5 The States Cut Public FundingStage 6 Private Vendors Leverage Public FundsStage 7 Unequal Funding Cuts AttainmentStage 8 Universities Build the Post– Middle ClassPart IIIReconstructing the Public UniversityNotesIndex

A well-written and readable work in the area of critical university studies, this book will be of interest to academics and general readers wanting more information on the causes of current issues in today's public educational institutions. Library Journal Amid much hand-wringing over the corporatization of the university and much chatter about the impending digital disruption of higher education, Newfield's contribution stands out. He mounts a deeply informed and impassioned defense of the idea that our economic, cultural, and political progress depends to a large degree on quality higher education - or more specifically, on quality higher education that has a liberal arts component, that affords equal access, and that is guaranteed by the 'public provision.' Los Angeles Review of Books ... straightforward and compelling... Times Higher Education It's a compelling case and an important vision. -- Andrew Perrin Scatterplot

Christopher Newfield is a professor of literature and American studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. He is the author of Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class and Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980.

• AcknowledgmentsPart IHolding Back Public CollegesThe Price of PrivatizationThe Devolutionary CyclePart IIStage 1 The University Retreat from Public GoodsStage 2 Subsidizing the Outside SponsorsStage 3 Large, Regular Tuition HikesStage 4 The States Cut Public FundingStage 5 The States Cut Public FundingStage 6 Private Vendors Leverage Public FundsStage 7 Unequal Funding Cuts AttainmentStage 8 Universities Build the Post– Middle ClassPart IIIReconstructing the Public UniversityNotesIndex

A well-written and readable work in the area of critical university studies, this book will be of interest to academics and general readers wanting more information on the causes of current issues in today's public educational institutions. Library Journal Amid much hand-wringing over the corporatization of the university and much chatter about the impending digital disruption of higher education, Newfield's contribution stands out. He mounts a deeply informed and impassioned defense of the idea that our economic, cultural, and political progress depends to a large degree on quality higher education - or more specifically, on quality higher education that has a liberal arts component, that affords equal access, and that is guaranteed by the 'public provision.' Los Angeles Review of Books ... straightforward and compelling... Times Higher Education It's a compelling case and an important vision. -- Andrew Perrin Scatterplot

Christopher Newfield is a professor of literature and American studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara. He is the author of Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class and Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980.

• AcknowledgmentsPart IHolding Back Public CollegesThe Price of PrivatizationThe Devolutionary CyclePart IIStage 1 The University Retreat from Public GoodsStage 2 Subsidizing the Outside SponsorsStage 3 Large, Regular Tuition HikesStage 4 The States Cut Public FundingStage 5 The States Cut Public FundingStage 6 Private Vendors Leverage Public FundsStage 7 Unequal Funding Cuts AttainmentStage 8 Universities Build the Post– Middle ClassPart IIIReconstructing the Public UniversityNotesIndex

A well-written and readable work in the area of critical university studies, this book will be of interest to academics and general readers wanting more information on the causes of current issues in today's public educational institutions. Library Journal Amid much hand-wringing over the corporatization of the university and much chatter about the impending digital disruption of higher education, Newfield's contribution stands out. He mounts a deeply informed and impassioned defense of the idea that our economic, cultural, and political progress depends to a large degree on quality higher education - or more specifically, on quality higher education that has a liberal arts component, that affords equal access, and that is guaranteed by the 'public provision.' Los Angeles Review of Books ... straightforward and compelling... Times Higher Education It's a compelling case and an important vision. -- Andrew Perrin Scatterplot