Report Examines Privatization of Public Universities

ACE recently published its third in a series of essays based on roundtable discussions among college and university presidents about what the changing relationship between states and their institutions means for the future of American higher education. Although public and independent colleges and universities traditionally have played by somewhat different rules, the changing policy arena alters the playing field for both types of institutions.

Bridging Troubled Waters: Competition, Cooperation, and the Public Good in Independent and Public Higher Education explores the implications of the privatization of public institutions, competition among all types of institutions, the potential negative impact of market-based policies on the capacity of higher education to serve the social good, and strategies to preserve that social good within a market-defined policy environment. Contributors to this roundtable included college and university leaders from both the nonprofit independent and public sectors.

For a copy of Bridging Troubled Waters, visit www.acenet.edu/bookstore. The first two essays, Shifting Ground: Autonomy, Accountability, and Privatization in Public Higher Education and Rewriting the Rules of the Game: State Funding, Accountability, and Autonomy in Public Higher Education, are also available online. The fourth and final essay in the series is due out this spring.

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