The Dream Is Over

The Dream Is Over
Author: Simon Marginson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2016-09-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0520292847

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan’s equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world’s leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and has had great influence in the rapid growth of universities in China and East Asia. Yet, remarkably, the political conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated. Universal access is faltering, public tuition is rising, the great research universities face new challenges, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags far behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr’s vision be renewed?

Breaking the Social Contract

Breaking the Social Contract
Author: Roger W. Benjamin
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The central finding of this report, commissioned by the California Education Round Table, is that the present course of higher education in California--in which student demand, tuition, and costs are rising much faster than public funding--cannot be sustained. Unless effective steps are taken to alter current trends, sizable numbers of Californians will be denied access to higher education within the next 20 years. If that should happen, many will find themselves excluded from the growing number of occupations that require postsecondary course work for employment. This education bottleneck is narrowing at a time when economic inequality is increasing in the state and social demographics are shifting. The research offers recommendations for coping with this crisis that emphasize the need for greater public support of higher education in California along with comprehensive institutional reform so that available resources can be reallocated and other changes implemented to streamline operations. California must devise an effective strategic plan now for developing its human resources.

Closing the Doors

Closing the Doors
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Committee on Higher Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 26
Release: 1992
Genre: Education, Higher
ISBN:

Closing the Doors

Closing the Doors
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Committee on Higher Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 1992
Genre: College costs
ISBN:

American Higher Education in Crisis?

American Higher Education in Crisis?
Author: Goldie Blumenstyk
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2015
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0199374082

Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices, and student debt has reached an all-time high. Americans are questioning the worth of a college education, even as studies show how important it is to economic and social mobility

The Quiet Crisis

The Quiet Crisis
Author: Peter Smith
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2004-05-28
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Go to college. Get a good job. This sounds simple, but is this what American's higher education system is actually doing? Not for many, according to Smith (founding president, California State U.- Monterey). Drawing from his experience in state and national politics as well as his years in academia, Smith details the ways in which American higher education is failing at educating, especially in its ability to serve an increasingly diverse population in an increasingly complex and technological world. Proposing that universities change from institutions of teaching to institutions of learning, Smith proposes a number of startlingly simple innovations that will help America get into the current millennium in terms of higher education. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).