Financing American Higher Education in the Era of Globalization

A convergence of economic, demographic, and political forces in the early twenty-first century requires a fundamental reexamination of the financing of American higher education

On-demand

Featuring:

William Zumeta  

William Zumeta

Professor

Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and College of Education at the University of Washington

William Zumeta is professor in the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and College of Education at the University of Washington and was a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. In 2009-10 he served as President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. He directs the Evans School's PhD program in Public Policy and Management and is co-director of the UW's interdisciplinary PhD training program in education policy sciences known as CREST (Collaborative Researchers for Education Sciences Training). He holds master's and PhD degrees in public policy from UC Berkeley.

David Breneman  

David W. Breneman

Newton and Rita Meyers Professor in Economics of Education

Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia

David W. Breneman is university professor, Newton and Rita Meyers Professor in Economics of Education, and former dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. Dr. Breneman holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, was a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, served as president of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, and was on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also chairs the Advisory Committee to the Measuring Up project of the National Center on Public Policy and Higher Education.

In their new book, Financing American Higher Education in the Era of Globalization, William Zumeta, David Breneman, Patrick Callan and Joni Finney address basic issues and trends that cut across higher education, focusing on:

·         how much higher education the country needs for individual opportunity and for economic viability in the future

·         how responsibility for paying for it is currently allocated

·         how financing higher education should be addressed in the future

In this one-hour on-demand webinar Dr. Zumeta and Dr. Breneman discuss the findings from their latest research and answer reader questions.