author: christopher newfield

The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them

... UC Berkeley student saying her classes all had hundreds of students in standard major structures. Her Stanford counterpart can match her big ambition to a customized major that leads to a course that will not only link her to a business ...

The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them

... get waters. UC president Mark G. Yudof continued to invert the subsidy facts in public statements. On the PBS NewsHour in late November 2009, he asserted, “Many of our, if I can put it this way, businesses are in good shape. We're doing ...

Unmaking the Public University

... UC Berkeley ( class of 1962 ) , it was nearly free . In that period , UC's flagship campuses had been relatively easy to get into , even with average SAT scores : in the 1950s , Berkeley accepted the vast majority of in - state students ...

Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class

... American flag is nothing but a symbol of hate and should be used for toilet paper for all I care.” Freelance writer at Brown University protest. 2. “What happened on September 11 was terrorism, but what happened during the Gulf War was ...

The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them

... (blog), January 6, 2012, http://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2012/01 /gov-gives-uc-just-about-nothing.html. 16. For a description of perma-austerity's impacts on the University of California, see Christopher Newfield, “Confronting Our ...

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