Killing Public Higher Education: The Arms Race for Research Prestige
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This is an opinion piece from a highly qualified professor of science who has served in administration highlights the need for reform in our public higher education research institutions. In this well-researched reference, Dr. Stocum illustrates how the competition among the public flagship universities for more money, research prestige, and power, and the imposition of mission differentiation on public universities, is detrimental to the educational needs of 21st century. The goal of the work is to expose the issues that exist, give a voice to under-recognized institutions and to provide suggestions for more effective education system moving forward.
- A well researched reference on widespread policy
- Offers insightful reflection based on first-hand experience
- Examines and proposes solutions to ignite the conversation and promote possible solutions to the problems in our present higher education structure
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Killing Public Higher Education - David L. Stocum
Killing Public Higher Education
The Arms Race for Research Prestige
David L. Stocum
Table of Contents
Cover image
Title page
Copyright
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Killing Public Higher Education: The Arms Race for Research Prestige
Introduction
The Addiction to Research Prestige Contributes to the Increasing Costs of Higher Education
Portrait of the Flagships
Rationales for Mission Differentiation
Rankism: The Underlying Disease of the Caste System
Research Prestige and Athletic Prestige: Brothers Under the Skin
The Future of Higher Education
Defining the Purpose of Undergraduate Education
The Urban University as a Model for the Twenty-First Century
References
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Acknowledgments
I thank the following individuals who read and commented on this essay: John Barlow, Gerald Bepko, Jo Ann Cameron, Robert Hammerle, Ellen Heber-Katz, Steve Hinterberger, P.E. MacAllister, Gerald Michael, Paul Raikes, Michael Schleuter, Laura Stocum, Jack Waaler, Romayne Wicklund, and Gunther Zupanc.
About the Author
David L. Stocum is Professor of Biology and Co-Director, Indiana University Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine, and Dean Emeritus, School of Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Prior to his work at IUPUI, he was Professor of Cell and Structural Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Killing Public Higher Education
The Arms Race for Research Prestige
Introduction
In 1968, armed with a PhD from a distinguished private research university, the University of Pennsylvania, I began a faculty career in a public flagship research university, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Two decades later, I became dean of science at a large urban public university, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), a position I held for 15 years. The contrast between these two types of public universities brought into sharp focus for me the fact that American public higher education is a caste system disguised under the euphemism of mission differentiation.
The system is dominated in each state by one or two massive flagship universities characterized by a culture of snobbish exclusivity and entitlement that compete in a frantic arms race for money and research prestige rankings. The flagships treat their