Public colleges and universities became a lot less “public” after the Great Recession. The coronavirus crisis could make it all a lot worse. ed_kilgore on the coming disaster for higher education
At the University of Alabama, loss of public support led to a cultivated boom in out-of-state students. Photo: Wesley Hitt/Getty Images If you want a good, if rough, idea of the practical consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on state and local governments and their services, you can take a look at what happened during and after the Great Recession not that long ago.
Public universities in some states that didn’t restore public support resorted to measures that took them further and further away from their mission as educators of children from families of modest means in their own jurisdictions, reports Kevin Carey in the New York Times: Now public universities are in poor shape to sustain another plunge in public funding, to the point where Carey wonders if the term “public” even applies to them any more:
So the best-case scenario involves “public” universities catering to increasingly elite students, or at least those capable of taking on ever-higher debt loads. The worst-case scenario could mean schools incapable of attracting enough students and dollars going under, damaging the communities they serve .
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