Public University Funding and the Privatization of Politics
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4245/sponge.v7i1.20002Abstract
This essay first examines a few key aspects of the erosion of public university funding in the United States, showing how the ideal of value-free science has undermined efforts to defend a conception of universities as public goods. Then it considers how advocates of California's Proposition 30, a ballot initiative that restored some public university funding, frequently adopted the same logic of privatization they sought to counteract.References
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