In the final chapter of Stephen M Gavazzi and E Gordon Gee's "What’s Public about Public Higher Ed? Halting higher education’s decline in the court of public opinion," after convincingly calling for university presidents to get out more and spend time with regular folks, so they can hear for themselves the local population’s concerns, hopes and dreams, Gavazzi and Gee turn to the debate about how higher education as a whole is viewed by the divided American public. A slight majority believe it is important, a drop of 19 points in six years. In 2017, fully 58% of Republicans had a negative view of higher education and how it contributed to the nation’s problems.
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