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Commentary: Austerity Metrics and the Restructuring of Public Higher Education
Author(s) -
Fabricant Michael B.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.12207
Subject(s) - austerity , restructuring , citation , library science , political science , law , computer science , politics
undergone a sea change, with less than 10 percent of their budgets now attributable to tax-levy public money. Th e City University of New York has lost more than a half billion dollars of its public funding in the past fi ve years. Th e California systems have also been targeted for similar cuts. With the politics of austerity policy, privatized forms of revenue, most notably tuition, have replaced public funding. Th e calculus is simple: as public funding declines, private forms Michael B. Fabricant