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The Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities (UERU) is a Boyer-inspired national consortium of research universities dedicated to innovation and excellence in undergraduate education. Listen to Reinventing U for cutting-edge perspectives from experts in undergraduate education.
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Friday Feb 14, 2025
Friday Feb 14, 2025
The University Unfettered
Public Higher Education in an Age of Disruption
Ian F. McNeely
Columbia University Press
The public university as we once knew it is gone and never coming back. After generations of fickle state support, public universities behave more and more like their private counterparts—charging what the market will bear, offering what consumers demand, competing relentlessly with peers, and managing their own priorities. But looking back on how we got here offers surprising reassurance. U.S. public universities emerged largely intact after a decade of disruption bookended by a financial crisis and a pandemic. Resisting widespread calls for corporate reinvention or “disruptive innovation,” they hewed to their core missions. If anything, exposure to the rigors of competition only enhanced their longstanding commitments to the public good.
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