Political Rancor and Educational Inequality: Why Building Consensus Is Necessary to Renew American Higher Education
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| Title: | Political Rancor and Educational Inequality: Why Building Consensus Is Necessary to Renew American Higher Education |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Cantwell, Brendan, Taylor, Barrett J. |
| Source: | Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. 2020 52(3):68-72. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 5 |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Political Attitudes, Equal Education, Higher Education, Educational Change, Racial Relations, American Indian Students, African American Students, Low Income Students, Public Schools, Tuition, State Aid, Financial Support, Racial Bias |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00091383.2020.1745607 |
| ISSN: | 0009-1383 |
| Abstract: | Since the Great Recession, a number of public colleges and universities have become operationally vulnerable. In this article, the authors point to two related processes leading to this crisis in public higher education. The first is the recent deterioration of operational conditions for a number of public colleges and universities. The second process results from hyper-partisan state governments and especially the politics of racial resentment that often motivate electoral participation among White voters. Under hyper-partisan conditions, some state governments have divested from public higher education especially aggressively when the student bodies of public colleges and universities grow more racially diverse than is the state as a whole (Taylor, Cantwell, Watts, & Wood, 2020). They elaborate on the two processes that underlie this state of affairs and offer possibilities for a more just, more equal higher education system |
| Abstractor: | ERIC |
| Entry Date: | 2020 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1262256 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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| Abstract: | Since the Great Recession, a number of public colleges and universities have become operationally vulnerable. In this article, the authors point to two related processes leading to this crisis in public higher education. The first is the recent deterioration of operational conditions for a number of public colleges and universities. The second process results from hyper-partisan state governments and especially the politics of racial resentment that often motivate electoral participation among White voters. Under hyper-partisan conditions, some state governments have divested from public higher education especially aggressively when the student bodies of public colleges and universities grow more racially diverse than is the state as a whole (Taylor, Cantwell, Watts, & Wood, 2020). They elaborate on the two processes that underlie this state of affairs and offer possibilities for a more just, more equal higher education system |
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| ISSN: | 0009-1383 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00091383.2020.1745607 |
