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American Higher Education in Crisis?: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Goldie Blumenstyk

Published in Print:: 13 November 2014

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197569931

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780199374090.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780199374090

American higher education is at a crossroads. Technological innovations and disruptive market forces are buffeting colleges and universities at the very time their financial structure grows ... More

American higher education is at a crossroads. Technological innovations and disruptive market forces are buffeting colleges and universities at the very time their financial structure grows increasingly fragile. Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices at public colleges, and student debt has reached a startling record-high of one trillion dollars. Cost-minded students and their families--and the public at large--are questioning the worth of a college education, even as study after study shows how important it is to economic and social mobility. And as elite institutions trim financial aid and change other business practices in search of more sustainable business models, racial and economic stratification in American higher education is only growing. In American Higher Education in Crisis?: What Everyone Needs to Know, Goldie Blumenstyk, who has been reporting on higher education trends for 25 years, guides readers through the forces and trends that have brought the education system to this point, and highlights some of the ways they will reshape America's colleges in the years to come. Blumenstyk hones in on debates over the value of post-secondary education, problems of affordability, and concerns about the growing economic divide. Fewer and fewer people can afford the constantly increasing tuition price of college, Blumenstyk shows, and yet college graduates in the United States now earn on average twice as much as those with only a high-school education. She also discusses faculty tenure and growing administrative bureaucracies on campuses; considers new demands for accountability such as those reflected in the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard; and questions how the money chase in big-time college athletics, revelations about colleges falsifying rankings data, and corporate-style presidential salaries have soured public perception. Higher education is facing a serious set of challenges, but solutions have also begun to emerge. Blumenstyk highlights how institutions are responding to the rise of alternative-educational opportunities and the new academic and business models that are appearing, and considers how the Obama administration and public organizations are working to address questions of affordability, diversity, and academic integrity. She addresses some of the advances in technology colleges are employing to attract and retain students; outlines emerging competency-based programs that are reshaping conceptions of a college degree, and offers readers a look at promising innovations that could alter the higher education landscape in the near future. An extremely timely and focused look at this embattled and evolving arena, this primer emphasizes how open-ended the conversation about higher education's future remains, and illuminates how big the stakes are for students, colleges, and the nation.Less

Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Jonathan Zimmerman

Published in Print:: 29 September 2016

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197569375

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780190627393.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780190627393

Universities are usually considered bastions of the free exchange of ideas, but a recent tide of demonstrations across college campuses has called this belief into question, and with ... More

The Cyprus Problem: What Everyone Needs to Know®

James Ker-Lindsay

Published in Print:: 28 July 2011

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197569993

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780199757169.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780199757169

For nearly 60 years--from its uprising against British rule in the 1950s, to the bloody civil war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in the ... More

Gender

Laura Erickson-Schroth and Benjamin Davis

Published in Print:: 25 February 2021

Published Online:: 27 January 2022

eISBN:: 9780197640609

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780190880033.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780190880033

This book serves as an introduction to the topic of gender. The term gender was first distinguished from sex in the 1950s, when psychologists began to ... More

The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein

Published in Print:: 28 August 2019

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197569702

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780190916039.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780190916039

An incisive, essential guide to understanding one of today’s most urgent -- and complex -- problems. The opioid epidemic is responsible for longest sustained decline in U.S. life expectancy ... More

The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Shira Tarrant

Published in Print:: 28 April 2016

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197569078

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780190205119.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780190205119

We may know pornography when we see it, but the business of pornography is a surprisingly elusive subject. Reliable figures about the industry are difficult to come by and widely disputed, ... More

Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Rickie Solinger

Published in Print:: 14 March 2013

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197570043

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780199811403.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780199811403

Reproductive politics is a term coined by feminists in the 1970s to describe contemporary, Roe v. Wade-era power struggles over contraception and abortion, adoption and surrogacy, and other ... More

Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know®

David Bornstein and Susan Davis

Published in Print:: 27 May 2010

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197569849

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780195396348.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780195396348

In development circles, there is now widespread consensus that social entrepreneurs represent a far better mechanism to respond to needs than we have ever had before--a decentralized and ... More

Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Jacqui True

Published in Print:: 28 January 2021

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197569948

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780199378944.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780199378944

Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a longstanding problem that has increasingly come to the forefront of international and national policy debates and news: from the US ... More

The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Justin Gest

Published in Print:: 23 August 2018

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197569580

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780190861414.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780190861414

In recent years, the world has been re-introduced to the constituency of “white working class” people. In a wave of revolutionary populism, far right parties have scored victories across ... More

In recent years, the world has been re-introduced to the constituency of “white working class” people. In a wave of revolutionary populism, far right parties have scored victories across the transatlantic political world: Britain voted to leave the European Union, the United States elected President Donald Trump to enact an “America First” agenda, and Radical Right movements are threatening European centrists in elections across the Continent. In each case, white working class people are driving a broad reaction to the inequities and social change brought by globalization, and its cosmopolitan champions. In the midst of this rebellion, a new group consciousness has emerged among the very people who not so long ago could take their political, economic, and cultural primacy for granted. Who are white working class people? What do they believe? Are white working class people an “interest group”? What has driven them to break so sharply with the world’s trajectory toward a more borderless, interconnected meritocracy? How can a group with such enduring power feel marginalized? This perplexing constituency must be understood if the world is to address and respond to the social and political backlash they are driving. The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides the context for understanding the politics of this large, perplexing group of people. The book begins by explaining what “white working class” means in terms of demographics, history, and geography, as well as the ways in which this group defines itself and has been defined by others. It will address whether white identity is on the rise, why white people perceive themselves as marginalized, and the roles of racism and xenophobia in white consciousness. It will also look at whether the white working class has distinct political attitudes, their voting behavior, and their prospects for the future. This accessible book provides a nuanced view into the forces driving one of the most complicated and consequential political constituencies today.Less

Women's Sports: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Jaime Schultz

Published in Print:: 28 March 2019

Published Online:: 12 November 2020

eISBN:: 9780197569467

DOI:: 10.1093/wentk/9780190657710.001.0001

Format:: book

ISBN:: 9780190657710

Although girls and women account for approximately 40 percent of all athletes in the United States, they receive only 4 percent of the total sport media coverage. SportsCenter, ESPN’s ... More

Although girls and women account for approximately 40 percent of all athletes in the United States, they receive only 4 percent of the total sport media coverage. SportsCenter, ESPN’s flagship program, dedicates less than 2 percent of its airtime to women. Local news networks devote less than 5 percent of their programming to women’s sports. Excluding Sports Illustrated’s annual "Swimsuit Issue," women appear on just 4.9 percent of the magazine’s covers. Media is a powerful indication of the culture surrounding sport in the United States. Why are women underrepresented in sports media? Sports Illustrated journalist Andy Benoit infamously remarked that women’s sports "are not worth watching." Although he later apologized, Benoit’s comment points to more general lack of awareness. Consider, for example, the confusion surrounding Title IX, the U.S. Law that prohibits sex discrimination in any educational program that receives federal financial assistance. Is Title IX to blame when administrators drop men’s athletic programs? Is it lack of interest or lack of opportunity that causes girls and women to participate in sport at lower rates than boys and men? In Women’s Sports, Jaime Schultz tackles these questions, along with many others, to upend the misunderstandings that plague women’s sports. Using historical, contemporary, scholarly, and popular sources, Schultz traces the progress and pitfalls of women’s involvement in sport. In the signature question-and-answer format of the What Everyone Needs to Know® series, this short and accessible book clarifies misconceptions that dog women’s athletics and offers much needed context and history to illuminate the struggles and inequalities sportswomen continue to face. By exploring issues such as gender, sexuality, sex segregation, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, media coverage, and the sport-health connection, Schultz shows why women’s sports are not just worth watching, but worth playing, supporting, and fighting for.Less

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Rickie Solinger

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David Bornstein and Susan Davis

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