They ignore the last quarter century when American higher education was transformed. This volume provides comprehensive information on that era. Cohen and Kisker provide us with astute and straightforward analysis and commentary on our past, present, and likely future.
This book is invaluable to those seeking to go to the heart of the issues and challenges confronting higher education.
Eaton, president, Council for Higher Education Accreditation "Arthur Cohen and his collaborator have now updated his superb history of American higher education. It remains masterful, authoritative, comprehensive, and incisive, and guarantees that this work will stand as the classic required resource for all who want to understand where higher education came from and where it is going.
The new material gives a wise and nuanced perspective on the current crisis-driven transformations of the higher education industry.
In this second edition, Arthur Cohen?? Author : John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in American life. This edition brings the discussion of perennial hot-button issues such as big-time sports programs up to date and addresses such current areas of contention as the changing role of governing boards and the financial challenges posed by the economic downturn.
Organized thematically, this book builds from the ground up, shedding light on the full, diverse range of institutions--including small liberal arts schools, junior and community colleges, black and white women's colleges, black colleges, and state colleges--that have been instrumental in creating the higher education system we know today. A People's History of American Higher Educationfocuses on those participants who may not have been members of elite groups, yet who helped push elite institutions and the country as a whole.
This pathbreaking textbook addresses key issues which have often been condemned to exceptions and footnotes--if not ignored completely--in historical considerations of U. Hutcheson introduces readers to both social and intellectual history, providing invaluable perspectives and methodologies for graduate students and faculty members alike. A People's History of American Higher Education surveys the varied characteristics of the diverse populations constituting or striving for the middle class through educational attainment, providing a narrative that unites often divergent historical fields.
The author engages readers in a powerful, revised understanding of what institutions and participants beyond the oft-cited elite groups have done for American higher education. Author : Roger L. Roger Geiger provides an in-depth history of this remarkable transformation, taking readers from the GI Bill and the postwar expansion of higher education to the social upheaval of the s and s, desegregation and coeducation, and the ascendancy of the modern research university.
He demonstrates how growth has been the defining feature of modern higher education, but how each generation since the war has pursued it for different reasons. Freedom's Laboratory. Breakaway Americas. All the Horrors of War. Mary Elizabeth Garrett.
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