Who Killed Higher Education?: Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era
About this ebook
Through extensive analysis of trends in public higher education funding, the book documents and lays bare the ways in which elite, neoliberal decision-makers launched a multi-pronged and attack on public higher education. It highlights the confluence of the enrollment of an increasingly diverse cohort of students in college with the efforts of conservative white legislatures to diminish funding support for public higher education.
Who Killed Higher Education? is an important resource for students in courses on higher education, and diversity in education. It will also provide instruction for boards of trustees, institutional leaders, faculty and key campus constituencies in developing long-term strategies that ensure the access and success of a diverse and talented student body.
About the author
Edna B. Chun is an award-winning author and human resource and diversity leader with extensive experience in complex, multi-campus systems of higher education. She teaches in the Human Capital Management Department in the Columbia University School of Professional Studies and is chief learning officer for HigherEd Talent, a national diversity and human resources consulting firm. Two of her co-authored books were the recipients of the prestigious Kathryn G. Hansen Publication Award by the national College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. She is also coauthor with Joe Feagin of Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education.
Joe R. Feagin is Distinguished Professor and Ella C. McFadden Professor at Texas A&M University. Author of more than 70 books, he has conducted extensive. internationally recognized research on U.S. racism, sexism, and urban issues. He is the recipient of the American Association for Affirmative Action’s Arthur Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award and the American Sociological Association’s Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award.
