The true genius of America at risk
Subtitle: are we losing our public universities to de facto privatization?
By: Katharine C. Lyall and Kathleen R. Sell ; foreword by David Ward.
Contributors: Sell, Kathleen R.
Series: ACE/Praeger series on higher education; American Council on Education/Praeger series on higher education.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Public universities and colleges -- Services for -- Contracting out -- United States; Public universities and colleges -- United States -- Finance; Privatization in education -- United States; Higher education and state -- United States
Description: Describes market forces that are eroding the traditional partnership between states and public universities, and explains how the search for new revenue sources is refocusing the basic goals of public universities. Through their focus on the past and the future of public higher education, Lyall and Sell clarify what has gone wrong, what can be done to save these valuable American institutions, and demonstrate how the interaction between recent trends has driven unintended consequences. – from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.