Saving State U: Why We Must Fix Public Higher Education

by Nancy Folbre

Book Overview

Once upon a time, students who were willing and able to work hard could obtain an affordable, high-quality education at a public university. Those times are gone. Intensified admissions competition coupled with opposition to public spending has scorched every campus. Budget cuts, tuition hikes, and debt burdens are undermining the best path to upward mobility that this country ever built. But despite all of this, Americans still embrace ideals of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595580654
• ISBN13: 9781595580658
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 7.5"