A Qualitative Deep Dive into the Dynamics of Public Universities
4 stars
This book reviews Hamilton and Nielsen's impressive research on the experiences of a variety of actors in the UC system, using that qualitative data as a lens onto the broader implications of the neoliberal turn in state higher education. This book makes a good companion to "The Privileged Poor," and I wish some of the methodology from that book would have been used here to more clearly situate the different actors interviewed for the book, in addition to expanding some of the data collection itself to include surveys and possibly quantitative metrics. That being said, this book makes it abundantly clear how much our current model has failed students, professors, and society more broadly and proposes some thought-provoking interventions (I LOVE the lottery idea). Highly recommend
This book reviews Hamilton and Nielsen's impressive research on the experiences of a variety of actors in the UC system, using that qualitative data as a lens onto the broader implications of the neoliberal turn in state higher education. This book makes a good companion to "The Privileged Poor," and I wish some of the methodology from that book would have been used here to more clearly situate the different actors interviewed for the book, in addition to expanding some of the data collection itself to include surveys and possibly quantitative metrics. That being said, this book makes it abundantly clear how much our current model has failed students, professors, and society more broadly and proposes some thought-provoking interventions (I LOVE the lottery idea). Highly recommend