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American Higher Education since World War II : a History /
American higher education is nearly four centuries old. But in the decades after World War II, as government and social support surged and enrollments exploded, the role of colleges and universities in American society changed dramatically. The author provides a history of this remarkable transforma...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : American Higher Education and World War II
- American Higher Education, 1945-1957. The GI Bill and Beyond : Higher Education, 1945-1955 ; The GI Bill ; Ghosts of the New Deal : The President's Commission on Higher Education; General Education and Liberal Education ; Defining Postwar America : The Cold War and McCarthyism ; Higher Education and the American Way of Life in the Conservative 1950s ; Who Should Go to College? ; The Expansion of Public Higher Education ; Private Colleges and Universities in the 1950s ; Postwar Universities
- The Liberal Hour, 1957-1968. The Ascendancy of the University ; The Federal Research Economy ; Foundations and University Research ; The Academic Revolution ; Universities and American Society ; Expansion and Transformation ; A Tidal Wave of Students ; Mass Public Higher Education ; Desegregation in the South, Diversity in the North ; Curriculum, Quality, and Mass Higher Education
- The Unraveling and the New Era, 1965-1980. The Unraveling, 1965-1970 ; SDS and the Growth of Student Radicalism ; Academic Armageddon : The 1968 Era, 1967-1970 ; Aftermath and Beginning of a New Era ; Surviving the Seventies ; The Federal Government and Higher Education ; The Rise of Women ; The Inversion of the Seventies : Students ; The Inversion of the Seventies : Institutions
- The Current Era in American Higher Education. The Dawn of the Current Era, 1980-2000 ; Universities and Economic Relevance : Revival of the Research Mission ; Privatization : Public and Private Higher Education and the Selectivity Sweepstakes ; The Culture Wars ; American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century ; The 1,000,000,000,000 Debt ; Bifurcation Revisited ; Returns to Higher Education ; The Learning Conundrum ; University Culture in a Polarized America ; Research Universities and the Knowledge Society ; American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century.