Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class
Christopher Newfield offers a critical examination of the public university across four decades, focusing on its relationship to the middle class. The book considers higher education as a public institution and explores the significance of its changing place in American social and political life.
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Christopher Newfield examines the changing role of the public university over a forty-year period.
The book focuses on the relationship between public higher education and the middle class.
Its title frames this history as an assault, inviting critical consideration of the forces shaping the university.
This is a work of education and social commentary centered on public institutions and their broader social consequences.
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