Austerity Blues - Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education

Informationen zum Autor Michael Fabricant is a professor of social work at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the vice president of CUNY’s Professional Staff Congress. He is the author of Organizing for Educational Justice: The Campaign for Public School Reform in the South Bronx and the coauthor of The Changing Politics of Education: Privatization and the Dispossessed Lives Left Behind. Stephen Brier is a professor of urban education and the coordinator of the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the cofounder of CUNY’s American Social History Project and the coauthor and coproducer of the ASHP’s Who Built America? multimedia curriculum. Klappentext Synthesizing historical sources, social science research, and contemporary reportage, Austerity Blues will be of interest to readers concerned about rising inequality and the decline of public higher education. Zusammenfassung Synthesizing historical sources! social science research! and contemporary reportage! Austerity Blues will be of interest to readers concerned about rising inequality and the decline of public higher education.

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• Authors: Stephen Brier, Stephen (City University of New York) Brier, Michael Fabricant, Michael (Professional Staff Congress) Fabricant, Michael (Professional Staff Congress) B Fabricant, Michael Brier Fabricant
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.12.2016
• EAN: 9781421420677
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2067-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Hochschulbildung, Fort- und Weiterbildung, Cultural Studies, Politik und Staat, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, EDUCATION / Higher, Education / Teaching, EDUCATION / Administration / Higher, Educational administration and organization, Educational strategies & policy, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Central / national / federal government policies, Higher education, tertiary education, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher