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Book SynopsisArgues that public higher education institutions remain a bastion of collaborative problem solving. The contributors to this volume restore the value of state universities and humanities education as a public good, contending that they deserve renewed and robust support.
Trade ReviewGoldberg situates the Wisconsin Idea in its historical, educational, institutional, and political context in ways that enlighten its original impulses, illuminating its significant contributions to rural and urban areas and to the very nature of the University of Wisconsin as a university of the people." - Michael Apple, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"An important look back at the progressive Wisconsin Idea and a look forward to its possible renewal. The authors take us through numerous ideas and practices that came to be known as the Wisconsin Idea and chart out a civic vision of higher education that is badly in need of being reinvented today." - Kevin Mattson, Ohio University
