# The Funding of Higher Education ## A workshop within the framework of ‘Universities: Past—Present—Future’, at the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Organized by Anja-Silvia Goeing on September 12, 2019, 5-7pm ![Background: Widener Library, Harvard University, postcard 1916](/sites/g/files/omnuum9766/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/funding-higher-ed/files/HarvardWidener1916?itok=OtF2LCbJ) ## Now available [### Roundtable Podcast "The Funding of Higher Education: Different Objectives in Switzerland, the UK, and the USA" ](/video-podcast-funding-higher-education-different-objectives-switzerland-uk-and-usa) ## What is or should be the relationship between a democratic polity and its educational institutions and places of higher learning? Contemporary discussions of curricula place great stress on utility, on the value of learning skills as they apply not just to the employability of students, but to the economic and political well-being of a state or nation. Older, more humanist notions of education as a process of self-fulfillment, of making a better moral person, have been challenged by such technocratic ideals and are often seen as outmoded. At the same time the question of *what* values inform democratic education raises the issue of *who* decides on what should be studied and how. How much autonomy should educators have, and to what extent should funders – whether the state and politicians, grant giving agencies, private gift-givers and donors or voters and ‘the public’, however defined – affect or influence university policy, academic curricula or research objectives. There is a tension at the heart of this issue, one between the public good of material well-being and the democratic value of free critical thinking, one that raises the question of how independent and autonomous educational institutions should or can be in a democratic society. [Learn more](/topic) ## Recent Publications Download 4 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=4&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters=&&&format=ris) ### 2018 Ronan Alvarado. 2018. [Higher Education: Goals and Considerations](/publications/higher-education-goals-and-considerations). New York: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated Ronan Alvarado. 2018. [Higher Education: Goals and Considerations](/publications/higher-education-goals-and-considerations). New York: Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated 2018. [Higher Education Funding and Access in International Perspective](/publications/higher-education-funding-and-access-international-perspective). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited 2018. [Higher Education Funding and Access in International Perspective](/publications/higher-education-funding-and-access-international-perspective). Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract This book explores the way in which the twin pressures of globalisation and localisation play out in higher education across the developed world, often reflected in more specific debates on fees regimes, access and culture..Front Cover -- Higher Education... ### 2017 Manuel Jiménez Raya, José Javier Martos Ramos, and Maria Giovanna Tassinari. 2017. [Learner and Teacher Autonomy in Higher Education: Perspectives from Modern Language Teaching](/publications/learner-and-teacher-autonomy-higher-education-perspectives-modern). Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Manuel Jiménez Raya, José Javier Martos Ramos, and Maria Giovanna Tassinari. 2017. [Learner and Teacher Autonomy in Higher Education: Perspectives from Modern Language Teaching](/publications/learner-and-teacher-autonomy-higher-education-perspectives-modern). Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract This volume pools the insights and experiences of a group of international researchers on different aspects of autonomy and related issues. Although autonomy is acknowledged as one of the main goals of education, in higher education the need for... Paul Gibbs. 2017. [Why Universities Should Seek Happiness and Contentment](/publications/why-universities-should-seek-happiness-and-contentment). London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Paul Gibbs. 2017. [Why Universities Should Seek Happiness and Contentment](/publications/why-universities-should-seek-happiness-and-contentment). London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract The totalising effect of consumerism, well-being and satisfaction is a discourse which may negate the value of struggle and mastery of complex subjects and a realization of personal potentiality. 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