Public Universities at Risk Abandoning Their Mission

by E Wayne Ross on October 28, 2008

The Chronicle: Public Universities at Risk Abandoning Their Mission

By GENE R. NICHOL

I am an admirer of Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class, a new book by Christopher Newfield, who writes in this issue of The Chronicle about how certain myths exacerbate the financial plight of those institutions. Newfield, a professor of English at the University of California…

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