{"id":2520,"date":"2011-12-20T14:27:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2011-12-20T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T19:27:32","slug":"the-crisis-of-the-public-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2520","title":{"rendered":"The Crisis of the Public University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor of medical anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley, offers <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Crisis-of-the-Public\/130135\/?sid=at&amp;utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en\">her opinion<\/a> on the future of public higher education in <em>The Chronicle of Higher Education Review<\/em>. Scheper-Hughes writes in response to the violent reaction by police to faculty and students observing a general strike in November. She writes that the university is facing a crisis not about faculty pay or conditions, but instead facing a crisis about &#8220;the failed promise of reasonably attainable higher education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The current crisis is fundamentally about privatization and the dismantling of a national public treasure. The students and professors who were whacked by billy clubs want to preserve a grand public university that took a century to build to its present pre-eminence and is taking just a few years to destroy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the story and let us know what you think. Could such a crisis happen at UW-Madison? Are we already in a crisis?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes, a professor of medical anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley, offers her opinion on the future of public higher education in The Chronicle of Higher Education Review. Scheper-Hughes writes in response to the violent reaction by police&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2520\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-national-context","tag-higher-education-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2524,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}