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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811630903321

Autore

Gavazzi Stephen M.

Titolo

What's public about public higher ed? : halting higher education's decline in the court of public opinion / / Stephen M. Gavazzi and E. Gordon Gee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-4214-4252-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Disciplina

378.050973

Soggetti

Public universities and colleges - United States - Administration

Public universities and colleges - Ratings and rankings - United States

Public universities and colleges - United States

Public opinion - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Opportunities and Threats to Higher Education -- 2. What Citizens Think about Their State's Public Universities: Steps toward Ground Truthing -- 3. Public Funding for Teaching, Research, and Community Engagement -- 4. Focusing Attention on Rural and Urban Communities -- 5. Global Footprint versus Closer to Home -- 6. Merit-Based Aid and Needs-Based Aid for Students -- 7. National Rankings: The Scourge of Higher Education -- 8. Jobs and Politics and Sports, Oh My! -- 9. Disdain the Beaten Path: The Year 2020 as a Turning Point for the American Public University -- Appendixes -- 1. Study Survey -- 2. Multivariate Tests -- 3. Tests of Between-Subjects Effects -- 4. Multiple Comparisons -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

An unflinching, no-holds-barred exploration of what citizens really think about their public universities, What's Public about Public Higher Ed? places special emphasis on the events of 2020--including the COVID-19 pandemic and the worst racial unrest seen in half a century--as major inflection points for understanding the implications



of the survey's findings.