October 31, 2008
Public Universities at Risk Abandoning Their Mission
I am an admirer of Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class, a new book by Christopher Newfield, who writes in this issue of The Chronicle about how certain myths exacerbate the financial plight of those institutions. Newfield, a professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, expands on his argument in the book. I am particularly drawn to his claims that the crises threatening public universities are not primarily the result of
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