If it's so important, why won't they pay for it?: Public higher education at the turn of the century

Monthly Review

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 20-31

  Neimark, Marilyn Kleinberg ^a  

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EID: 0007361991     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/MR-051-05-1999-09_3     Document Type: Article

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2. Daniel Hecker, "College Graduates in High School Jobs: A Commentary," Monthly Labor Review, December 1995; Jared Bernstein and Lawrence Mishel, "Has Wage Inequality Stopped Growing?," Monthly Labor Review, December 1997; Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and John Schmidt, "Finally: Real Wage Gains," Economic Policy Institute, Brief #127, July 17, 1998.
3. Daniel Hecker, "College Graduates in High School Jobs: A Commentary," Monthly Labor Review, December 1995; Jared Bernstein and Lawrence Mishel, "Has Wage Inequality Stopped Growing?," Monthly Labor Review, December 1997; Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and John Schmidt, "Finally: Real Wage Gains," Economic Policy Institute, Brief #127, July 17, 1998.
4. The projections account for slightly over ten million jobs, about 58 percent of the total new jobs projected. Of the jobs requiring a bachelor's degree or higher, 56.82 percent are projected to be in data processing, which includes the three occupations projected to be the fastest growing. In addition to new jobs, almost three times as many openings are projected for replacement workers. Replacement needs are greatest, the Labor Department points out, in occupations with low pay and status and low training requirements.
5. Clark Kerr, Higher Education Cannot Escape History: Issues for the Twenty-First Century (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994).
6. Russell Jacoby, Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America (NewYork: Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1994); Ethan Bronner, "College Efforts to Lure the Best Set Others Back: Fewer Scholarships Are Based on Need for Aid," New York Times, June 21, 1998.
7. Russell Jacoby, Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America (NewYork: Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1994); Ethan Bronner, "College Efforts to Lure the Best Set Others Back: Fewer Scholarships Are Based on Need for Aid," New York Times, June 21, 1998.
8. Michel Crozier, Samuel H. Huntington and Joji Watanuki, "The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission" (New York: New York University Press, 1975).