商品簡介
Ehrenberg (industrial and labor relations and economics, Cornell U.) joins higher education researchers, policy analysts, and administrators from universities in the US, who discuss the state of public higher education in 14 revised papers (plus two new ones to this volume) from a conference, "Assessing Public Higher Education at the Start of the 21st Century," at the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute in May of 2005. Citing the decrease in state funding as a major influence, they examine changes in the past 30 years, why they occurred, and their effect on graduation rates, as well as the importance of tenured faculty, the impact of more adjunct instructors, and experiences in 10 individual states. The final section examines the "privatization" of public universities, and what types of federal policies need to be put in place. Two of the papers have been published previously in other versions. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
RONALD G. EHRENBERG is Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, Cornell University, and director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. He is also chair of the American Association of University Professors Committee on the Economic Status for the Faculty. Dr. Ehrenberg holds a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University and is the author or co-author of 16 books and more than 110 papers.
