Let's not railroad american higher education!

PS - Political Science and Politics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 94-101

  Brady, Henry E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84872075867     PISSN: 10490965     EISSN: 15375935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S104909651200159X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. To be fair, many of the most misguided criticisms appear in newspaper editorials, partisan tracts, and blog-posts.
2. The Spellings Report on Higher Education made some of these arguments about obsolescence, nonprofits, and the Internet in U.S. Department of Education, ATest of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education (Washington, DC: 2006).
3. Heritage Foundation scholar Stuart Butler makes them as well in "The Coming Higher-Ed Revolution," National Affairs,Winter 2012 at http://www.nationalaffairs.com/doclib/20111220-Butler-Indiv.pdf.
4. Critiques of the privatization of American higher education include Christopher Newfield, Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008
5. Marc Bousquet, How the UniversityWorks: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (New York: New York University Press, 2008).
6. Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, Higher Education? How Colleges areWasting our Money and Failing our Kids-And WhatWe Can Do about It (NewYork: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2010).
7. Henry Rosovsky, The University: An Owner's Manual (NewYork:W.W. Norton and Company, 1990
8. Derek Bok, Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003).
9. David Kirp has written the best single account of the dilemmas of higher education in Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).
10. John Stiles, Michael Hout, and Henry E. Brady, "California's Fiscal Returns on Investments in Higher Education," at http://cshe.berkeley.edu/ publications/docs/ROPS.Stiles %20et%20al.ReturnOnInvestment.10.2.2012.pdf.
11. Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz, The Race Between Education and Technology (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2010).
12. John Immerwahr, "Public Attitudes on Higher Education: A Trend Analysis, 1993 to 2003," paper prepared by Public Agenda for the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, February 2004 at http://www.highereducation.org/reports/pubatt/Pub-Agenda-040210.pdf
13. John Immerwahr and Jean Johnson (with Amber Ott and Jonathan Rochkind), "Squeeze Play 2010: Continued Public Anxiety on Cost, Harsher Judgments on How Colleges are Run," report prepared by Public Agenda for Public Policy and Higher Education, February 2010 at http://www.highereducation.org/reports/ squeeze-play-10/squeeze-play-10.pdf
14. Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011);
15. Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, Higher Education? How Colleges areWasting our Money and Failing our Kids-And whatWe Can Do about Iit (New York: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2010);
16. Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why It Matters (NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2011);
17. Richard P. Keeling and Richard H. Hersh,We're Losing Our Minds: Rethinking American Higher Education (Palgrave MacMillan: 2011).
18. U.S. Department of Education, ATest of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education (Washington, DC: 2006), page xii.
19. http://education.exeter.ac.uk/dll/details.php?code-DLF02
20. Larry Hardesty, "Is MIT Giving Away the Farm? The Surprising Logic of MIT's free online education program," Technology Review, August 21, 2012, at http://www.technologyreview.com/article/428698/is-mit-giving-away-the- farm/.
21. Michael Hout, "Social and Economic Returns to College Education in the United States," Annual Review of Sociology, 38: 10.1-10.22, 2012.
22. Calculated from the figures at http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp? id-76.
23. Ronald G. Ehrenberg, 2012, "American Higher Education in Transition," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26: 193-216
24. John Quinterno, The Great Cost Shift: How Higher Education Cuts Undermine the Future Middle Class (New York: Demos, 2012) at http://www.demos.org/sites/ default/files/publications/thegreatcostshift-0.pdf
25. Robert B. Archibald and David H. Feldman, Why Does College Cost So Much? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
26. William J. Baumol, "Macroeconomics of Unbalanced Growth: The Anatomy of Urban Crisis," American Economic Review, 57: 415-26, June, 1967, page 416.
27. http://www.aaup.org/NR/rdonlyres/2223C57E-4F87-4C93-99F4-7BAA65C7CC80/0/ Tab4.pdf
28. Saranna Thornton and JohnW. Curtis, "A Very Slow Recovery: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession-2011-12," Academe, March-April 2012.
29. Howard Bowen, The Costs of Higher Education: How Much Do College and Universities Spend Per Student and How Much Should they Spend? (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1980).
30. Robert Zemsky,WilliamWenger, and William Massy, Remaking the American University: Market-Smart and Mission Centered (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005).
31. Ronald J. Ehrenberg, Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
32. Ron Ehrenberg, 2012 and Burton A.Weisbrod, Jeffrey P. Ballou, and Evelyn D. Asch, Mission and Money: Understanding the University (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008
33. Derek Bok, 2003;
34. Kirp, 2003;
35. Ehrenberg, 2000, 2012;
36. Weisbrod, Ballou, and Asch, 2008.
37. Clayton M. Christensen and Henry J. Eyring, The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011, page xxiii.
38. Ehrenberg, 2000, page 7.
39. Hans Johnson, "Defunding Higher Education: What Are the Effects on College Enrollment?" San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California, 2012 at http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R-512HJR.pdf
40. Christensen and Eyring, 2011 and Ben Wildavsky, Andrew P. Kelly, and Kevin Carey (editors), Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2011).
41. Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).
42. Timothy Rodgers, "Measuring Value Added in Higher Education: A Proposed Methodology for Developing a Performance Indicator Based on the Economic Value Added to Graduates, Education Economics, 15 (1): 55-74, March 2007.
43. Susan A. Ambrose et al., How LearningWorks: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Learning (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010
44. MaryellenWeimer, Learner-CenteredTeaching: Five Key Changes to Practice (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002).
45. Scott E. Carrell and James E.West, "Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors," National Bureau of Economic Research,Working Paper 14081, June, 2008 at http://www.economics. harvard.edu/faculty/staiger/files/carrell%2Bwest%2Bprofessor%2Bqualty%2Bjpe.pdf.
46. David Kirp, 2003, Chapters 9-10
47. Scott Carlson, "After Losing Millions, Columbia U.Will Close Online-Learning Venture, The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 17, 2003.
48. http://budgetmodel.uoregon.edu/content/introduction-responsibility- centered-management
49. Kirp, 2003, Chapter 6.