Public Funding of Higher Education: Changing Contexts and New Rationales

University Business, Jan, 2005 by Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti

Public Funding of Higher Education: Changing Contexts and New Rationales

Edited by Edward P. St. John and Michael D. Parsons; The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004; 263 pp.; $45.

In recent years, the broad political support for public financing of higher education has eroded, leaving a battleground laced with the minefields of desire to cut these large budgetary line items and mandate to do more with less. Exploring these issues is the mission of Public Funding of Higher Education. Filled with insightful examinations of federal funding, state funding, and lobbying, the volume is a rational voice sorting the conflicting demands on the college and university budgeting process. Send this book to members of your board--and, perhaps, to members of your state legislature come budget time.