{"product_id":"austerity-blues-9781421420677","title":"Austerity Blues","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynthesizing historical sources, social science research, and contemporary reportage, Austerity Blues will be of interest to readers concerned about rising inequality and the decline of public higher education.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAusterity Blues\u003c\/i\u003e is a must read for people engaged in public higher education and an important addition to Critical University Studies.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eRadical Teacher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey [Michael Fabricant and Stephen Brier.] draw on a wealth of scholarship and journalism across several disciplines and topics, uniting and analyzing phenomena often examined in detailed isolation. These include the broad structural factors shaping public higher education, the incentives that influence university-level decision making, the ways that austerity policies intensify inequality within university systems, and the role of technology in all of these processes. The resulting synthesis reveals the long history and present extent of the impoverishment of public higher education, and what it will take to “protect the public university as a democratic experiment firmly planted in the public commons.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Gotham Center for New York City History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAusterity Blues leaves readers wanting to know more about the forces that have facilitated this trend . . . Fabricant and Brier’s analysis raises important questions about the kinds of political change that will be necessary to reverse the austerity policies that they describe and what it will take to realize those changes. As such, this book establishes a powerful agenda for future research.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAcademe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAusterity Blues\u003c\/i\u003e raises many crucial questions about the purposes of public higher education, pervasive (and growing) inequality, and the consequences of divestment and austerity politics. Most importantly, it ends by asking: \"What's next?\" And in that question, it urges each one of us to individually and collectively think about the future and our contribution to that future.\u003cbr\u003e—Josipa Roska\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction   Part I: The Political-Economic Context of Public Higher EducationChapter 1: Public Assets in an Era of Austerity Deregulation, Disinvestment, and Degradation Six Propositions for Understanding the Restructuring of Public Higher EducationEconomic Crisis and the Capitalization of Public GoodsThe Radical Restructuring of Public Higher Education  Chapter 2: The State Expansion of Public Higher Education The G.I. Bill The Presidential Panel on Higher EducationPublic Higher Education in California, New York, and BeyondThe Founding and Expansion of SUNY and the Status of New York City's Municipal Colleges The California Master Plan for Higher Education   Chapter 3: Students and Faculty Take Command New York State, CUNY and the Struggle for Open Admissions-The Multiversity and the Student MovementThe Fate of Open Admissions  Part II: The State of AusterityChapter 4: The Making of the Neoliberal Public University Neoliberal Reform I: Corporatizing University CultureNeoliberal Reform II: The Perfect Storm of Online Technology and the Commodification of Knowledge Elite Politics and EconomicsThe Curricula of Austerity Technology as the Tool of Austerity ManagersCollege Readiness, Low Graduation Rates, and Fiscal Starvation Resetting Course: Investing in Disposable Citizens  Chapter 5: The Public University as an Engine of Inequality Unequal Investments in Public Higher EducationCheapening Public Higher EducationQualitative Shifts in the Experience of Public Higher Education The Ascent of For-Profit Colleges Accountability in an Era of Austerity Cheap Part-time Labor as an Austerity FixManaging Public Universities in a Time of Inverted Priorities   Chapter 6: Technology as a \"Magic Bullet\" in an Era of AusterityExpanding Beyond Classroom InstructionThe Emergence of Digital Technology The Rise of DigitalU The Open Educational Resources MovementThe Khan AcademyMOOCs and the Reshaping of Public Higher EducationNeoliberal Reformer: Michael Crow and the \"New American University\"  Part III: Resistance Efforts and the Fight for Emancipatory EducationChapter 7: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education Restructuring, Abandonment, and Dissolution The Struggle Over Purposes and Practices Achieving Emancipatory EducationWhat Types of Strategic Investments Are Needed?Building a Better Knowledge Production WorkforceWhere Should Public Higher Education Be Situated?Deploying Technology to Improve Teaching and LearningPolitical Choice and StruggleFault Lines in Current Struggles Grassroots Struggles and Educational Policy Reforms: Student Debt and the Choice to StrikeFree Tuition and Community CollegesIncreasing Wages and Job Protections for Part-Time Faculty Cross-Sector Campaigns and Increased Investment Sustaining and Expanding Universal Access Resisting Curricular DilutionScaling Up and Drilling Down   EpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408120258903,"sku":"9781421420677","price":23.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421420677.jpg?v=1730501658","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/austerity-blues-9781421420677","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}