The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Return of College as a Common Good
October 04, 2022
If Powell and Quadlin are right, we may be in the midst of a perceptual shift, a reframing of the narrative about college into one that sees it as a public good. A good that, like clean water or public parks, will require collective investment to maintain and make available, but that could pay communal and societal dividends.
If so, that shift comes at a critical moment.