Article Title
Notes on Higher Education in the 1990s
Abstract
This article consists of a series of essays written for The Academic Workplace, the newsletter of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education, since 1990. The backdrop for the essays is the increasing inequality in higher education caused by changes in the political economy of higher education, especially in New England. The first essay analyzes the roots of contemporary faculty dissatisfaction with their work lives by tracing the impacts of the expansion of higher education, changes in the student body, and greater government involvement in higher education. Subsequent essays discuss multicultural education, faculty shortages, political correctness, responses to cutbacks, the evaluation of quality, and the collective life of academia. Altogether, the essays present a rather grim look at higher education in the 1990s, leavened by a few suggestions for change.
Recommended Citation
Gamson, Zelda F.
(1994)
"Notes on Higher Education in the 1990s,"
New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 10:
Iss.
1, Article 19.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol10/iss1/19
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