| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Changing Face of The UC -- 1. Battle with the Rankings -- 2. P3 Paradise -- 3. Running Political Cover -- Responses to Underfunding -- 4. Austerity Administration -- 5. Tolerable Suboptimization -- Dealing in Diversity -- 6. Student Labor and Centers of Support (with Veronica Lerma) -- 7. Marketing Diversity -- Breaking the Cycle -- Acknowledgments -- Methodological Appendix: On Being White and Studying Race -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Abstract |
Public research universities were previously able to provide excellent education to white families thanks to healthy government funding. However, that funding has all but dried up in recent decades as historically underrepresented students have gained greater access, and now less prestigious public universities face major economic challenges. In Broke, Laura T. Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen examine virtually all aspects of campus life to show how the new economic order in public universities, particularly at two campuses in the renowned University of California system, affects students. For most of the twentieth century, they show, less affluent families of color paid with their taxes for wealthy white students to attend universities where their own offspring were not welcome. That changed as a subset of public research universities, some quite old, opted for a "new" approach, making racially and economically marginalized youth the lifeblood of the university. These new universities, however, have been particularly hard hit by austerity. To survive, they've had to adapt, finding new ways to secure funding and trim costs--but ultimately it's their students who pay the price, in decreased services and inadequate infrastructure. The rise of new universities is a reminder that a world-class education for all is possible. Broke shows us how far we are from that ideal and sets out a path for how we could get there. Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Biographical note | Laura T. Hamilton is professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced. She is coauthor of Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality and author of Parenting to a Degree: How Family Matters for College and Beyond. Kelly Nielsen is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Merced. |
| Source of description | online resource; title from resource home page (EBSCOhost, viewed March 18, 2021) |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Hamilton, Laura T. (Laura Teresa). Broke. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021 9780226605401 |
| ISBN | 9780226747590 electronic book |
| ISBN | 022674759X electronic book |
| ISBN | (hbk.) |
| ISBN | (pbk.) |
| Standard identifier# |
10.7208/chicago/9780226747590.001.0001 |
| Stock number | 9780226747590 BiblioVault |
