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Palace of Ashes

China and the Decline of American Higher Education
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In addition to possessing the worlds largest economies, China and the United States have extensive higher education systems that are comparable in size. By juxtaposing their long and distinctive educational traditions,Palace of Ashes offers compelling evidence that American colleges and universities are quickly falling behind in measures such as scholarly output and the granting of doctoral degrees in STEM fields. China, in contrast, has massed formidable economic power in support of its universities in an attempt to create the best educational system in the world. Palace of Ashes argues that the overall quality of U.S. institutions of higher learning has declined over the last three decades. Mark S. Ferrara places that decline in a broad historical context to illustrate how the forces of globalization are helping rapidly developing Asian nationsparticularly Chinatransform their major universities into serious contenders for the worlds students, faculty, and resources.Ferrara finds that American institutions have been harmed by many factors, including chronic state and federal defunding, unsustainable tuition growth, the adoption of corporate governance models, adjunctification, and the overall decline of the humanities education relative to job-related training. Ferrara concludes with several key recommendations to help U.S. universities counter these trends and restore the palace of American higher learning.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. From Mandarins to Mao Zedong
2. A Shared Humanistic Heritage
3. The Chinese Moment
4. Crisis in the American Academy
5. Global Convergence and Competition
6. Pricing the Paradigm Shift
Afterword
Notes
Index

""... provocative... What makes Mark Ferrara's book intriguing is the comparative study of Chinese higher education traditions and the current situation of Chinese universities.""

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