Class Struggle in Higher Education

Autor/inn/en	Clawson, Dan; Leiblum, Mishy
Titel	Class Struggle in Higher Education
Quelle	In: Equity & Excellence in Education, 41 (2008) 1, S.12-30 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1066-5684
Schlagwörter	Working Class; Affirmative Action; Social Class; Social Influences; Case Studies; Public Colleges; Power Structure; Minority Groups; Student Personnel Services; Student Financial Aid; Student Needs; Privatization; Financial Support; Budgets; Grants; Tuition; Equal Education; Massachusetts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeiterklasse; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Sozialer Einfluss; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Ethnische Minderheit; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Finanzielle Förderung; Finanzhaushalt; Grant; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	Public higher education has undergone a process similar to that in the national polity: a one-sided struggle by those with power to shape the institution to be more market driven, more focused on what will generate (non-state) revenues, more dominated by top administrators, and less concerned about the working class and people of color. This article examines these trends nationally with a focus on one case study, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the state's public higher education flagship university. First the article examines the concentration of power in fewer hands. Second it looks at the squeeze in the middle, the way cuts in state appropriations coincide with increases in tuition and fees. Third, it examines attacks on the working class and people of color through changing the rules on affirmative action, reducing support services for students of color and others, and shifting away from needs-based financial aid toward an increased reliance on so-called merit-based financial aid. Fourth, the article describes a vigorous attempt to contest these changes, which has won some victories and has certainly helped to raise awareness of the class issues involved in the transformation of public universities. Finally, the article assesses both the main trends and the efforts to contest those changes. (Contains 9 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10