Blog #3: Privatization & Free Speech on Campus

As the NEA report on privatization and higher education illustrated, the funding of public universities declined and their administrative operations changed, reflecting a more market-efficient management including the contracting out of services by universities. The report also found that the growth of private and for-profit higher educational institutions skyrocketed. One of the more interesting realities I came across in my research was that student and media free speech on college campuses is more limited on private, not public, universities.