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Author(s): Christopher Newfield
ISBN(s): 9780674028173, 0674028171
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Year: 2008
Language: english
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Author: Christopher Newfield

An essential American dream–equal access to higher education–was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after World War II. But this vital American promise has been broken. Christopher Newfield argues that the financial and political crises of public universities are not the result of economic downturns or of ultimately valuable restructuring, but of a conservative campaign to end public education’s democratizing influence on American society. “Unmaking the Public University” is the story of how conservatives have maligned and restructured public universities, deceiving the public to serve their own ends. It is a deep and revealing analysis that is long overdue. Newfield carefully describes how this campaign operated, using extensive research into public university archives. He launches the story with the expansive vision of an equitable and creative America that emerged from the post-war boom in college access, and traces the gradual emergence of the anti-egalitarian “corporate university,” practices that ranged from racial policies to research budgeting. Newfield shows that the culture wars have actually been an economic war that a conservative coalition in business, government, and academia have waged on that economically necessary but often independent group, the college-educated middle class. Newfield’s research exposes the crucial fact that the culture wars have functioned as a kind of neutron bomb, one that pulverizes the social and culture claims of college grads while leaving their technical expertise untouched. “Unmaking the Public University” incisively sets the record straight, describing a forty-year economic war waged on thecollege-educated public, and awakening us to a vision of social development shared by scientists and humanists alike

Table of contents:

Part I. The Meaning of a Majoritarian Society
Chapter 1. The Three Crises and the Mass Middle Class
Chapter 2. Declarations of Independence

Part II. Inventing PC: The War on Equality
Chapter 3. The Discrediting of Social Equality
Chapter 4. The Market Substitute for Cultural Knowledge
Chapter 5. From Affirmative Action to the New Economy
Chapter 6. The Battle for Meritocracy
Chapter 7. Diversity in the Age of Pseudo-Integration

Part III. Market Substitutes for General Development
Chapter 8. Facing the Knowledge Managers
Chapter 9. English’s Market Retreat
Chapter 10. The Costs of Accounting
Chapter 11. The Problem with Privatization
Chapter 12. The Failure of Market Measures
Chapter 13. Hiding Culture’s Contribution
Chapter 14. Half-Suffocated Reforms

Part IV. The New War and After
Chapter 15. The Blame-Academia Crowd: Culture War After 9/11

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