Notes from FileMaker 'Lecturer/Performer' field: Newfield, Chris

Notes from FileMaker 'Cross-Reference Titles' field: Audio recording of Reed visiting speaker, received from Marty Ripp (A-V), November, 2011 Christopher Newfield ’80

Why is the American university system in crisis? A central reason is the financial pressure put on colleges and universities by the "innovation economy," pressure which has led to rising student debt, less personalized instruction, and growing research funding deficits. The lecture shows that the leading response at public universities to this pressure—large tuition increases and other attempts to replace public with private funds—has made the budget problem worse. Newfield teaches American Studies in the English department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His current research focuses on higher education history, funding, and policy, culture and innovation, and the relation between culture and economics. He is the author of Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class (Harvard University Press, 2008), chairs the Innovation Group at the NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society, runs a blog on the current crisis in higher education, Rethinking the University. Sponsored by the Division of Literature and Languages.