This report focuses on one of the State University of New York's (SUNY's) applied learning initiatives that includes work-based activities, e.g., co-ops, internships, work study, and clinical placement (SUNY Works). With funds from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, SUNY asked the Rockefeller Institute of Government to examine applied…

Higher education data from France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States show continued increases in participation and in private funding. However, private funding is largely geared to money-generating research and service--not to teaching--refuting the notion that higher education can be increasingly…

States that the increasingly unrestricted growth of competition places national public institutions of education under escalating pressure. Notes that creeping privatization is passing more costs of education onto the citizen. Argues that this internationally subversive process is seldom critically addressed but is instead dominated by a high-brow…