Public policy challenges facing higher education in the American West / [15 authors] ; Edited by Lester F. Goodchild, Richard W. Jonsen, Patty Limerick, David A. Longanecker.
| Uniform Title: | Higher education & society.
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| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Series: | Higher education & society.
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| Physical Description: | xx, 223 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction / Lester F. Goodchild, Richard W. Jonsen, Patty Limerick, and David A. Longanecker
- Public policy demographic background
- A demographic profile of higher education in the American West / Cheryl D. Blanco
- Seven regional public policy challenges
- Assessing college access and success in the West / Mikyung Ryu
- The federal government, research funding, and Western higher education policy / David A. Longanecker
- State policy leadership in the public interest : is anyone at home? / Aims C. McGuinness, Jr
- Higher education finance policy in the Western states / Dennis P. Jones
- Public financing of higher education in the Western states : changing patterns in state appropriations and tuition revenues / Charles S. Lenth, Kathleen J. Zaback, Andrew M. Carlson, Allison C. Bell
- Technology and distance education : challenges facing the American West / Sally M. Johnstone and J. Ritchie Boyd
- The growth of community colleges in the West : conditions and public policy challenges / Cheryl D. Lovell
- A concluding commentary
- Afterword : Where do we go from here? The policy nexus between the West and the federal government
- David A. Longanecker.