The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare what we already know: the current system of public higher education is unsustainable. A -Reagan-era ethos of privatization and competition has turned students into consumers and colleges into businesses. Tuition is unaffordable. Student loan debt is more than $1.6 trillion, and a majority of college faculty work in adjunct positions for low pay and with no security. We have forgotten that public education is infrastructure, and are paying a high price for this wrong turn thirty-plus years ago. In Sustainable. Resilient. Free.: The Future of Public Higher Education, author and educator John Warner maps out a way forward, one by which our public colleges and universities are reoriented toward supporting the potential of students while providing broad-based benefits to the community at large. One in which public higher ed is accessible and affordable, able to serve as a robust support for its ever-shifting ecosystem of students, teachers, and workers. As Warner explains, it's not even complicated. It's no more costly than the current system. We just have to choose to live the values we claim to hold dear.
The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare what we already know: the current system of public higher education is unsustainable. A -Reagan-era ethos of privatization and competition has turned students into consumers and colleges into businesses. Tuition is unaffordable. Student loan debt is more than $1.6 trillion, and a majority of college faculty work in adjunct positions for low pay and with no security. We have forgotten that public education is infrastructure, and are paying a high price for this wrong turn thirty-plus years ago. In Sustainable. Resilient. Free.: The Future of Public Higher Education, author and educator John Warner maps out a way forward, one by which our public colleges and universities are reoriented toward supporting the potential of students while providing broad-based benefits to the community at large. One in which public higher ed is accessible and affordable, able to serve as a robust support for its ever-shifting ecosystem of students, teachers, and workers. As Warner explains, it's not even complicated. It's no more costly than the current system. We just have to choose to live the values we claim to hold dear.
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