Public Policy and Higher Education: Reframing Strategies for Preparation, Access, and College Success [Paperback]

This third?edition provides readers with tools to examine how policies affect student access and success in college. Examining recent developments, this updated edition is an invaluable resource for graduate students, administrators, and researchers who seek to learn more about the contexts underlying policy decisions and college access.?

1. Introduction  Part I: Reframing Higher Education Policy  2. Public Policy and Higher Education: Global Competitiveness, Political Divisions, and Reframing Strategies  3. Reframing Policy Matters: Political Ideologies, Policy Studies, and Research Evidence  4. Reframing Preparation: From Pathways to STEM Pipeline and Economic Stratification  5. College Access: From Equal Opportunity to Economic Stratification  6. Reframing College Success: Civic Leadership, Economic Uplift, and Financial Wellbeing  Part II: State Cases  7. The Old Liberal Model: The California Case  8. The Market Model Reconsidered: The Minnesota Case  9. The Eroding Balanced Model: The Indiana Case  10. From Merit Aid to MAGA Reforms: The Florida Case  11: Conservative-Progressive Tensions: The North Carolina Case

 

Public Policy and Higher Education, third edition, provides readers with the tools to examine how policies affect students access and success in college. Rather than arguing for a single approach, the authors use research-based evidence and consider political and historical values and beliefs to examine how policymakers and higher education administrators can inform and influence change within systems of higher education. Raising new questions and examining recent developments, this fully updated edition is an invaluable resource for graduate students,lÃ#