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Gavazzi Stephen M. |
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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 |
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Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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1 online resource (1 online resource) |
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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 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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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 |
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