Public universities are in crisis, waning in their role as central institutions within democratic societies. Denunciations are abundant, but analyses of the cau

Throughout the twentieth century, public universities were established across the United States at a dizzying pace, transforming the scope and purpose of Americ

An essential American dream—equal access to higher education—was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after World War II. But this

This book sheds light on the risk of losing the authoritative knowledge discovered and taught by public universities. It argues that public universities are as

Universities have been subjected to continuous government reforms since the 1980s, to make them ‘entrepreneurial’, ‘efficient’ and aligned to the predic