Author: United States. President's Commission on Higher Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Higher Education for American Democracy: Establishing the goals.- v.2. Equalizing and expanding individual opportunity
Author: United States. President's Commission on Higher Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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American Higher Education Since World War II
Author: Roger L. Geiger
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216924
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Geiger provides an in-depth history of the remarkable transformation of higher education in the United States in the decades after World War II, taking readers from the GI Bill and the postwar expansion of higher education to the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, desegregation and coeducation, and the challenges confronting American colleges today. Shedding light on the tensions and triumphs of an era of rapid change, the author shows how American universities emerged after the war as the world's most successful system for the advancement of knowledge, how the pioneering of mass higher education led to the goal of higher education for all, and how the "selectivity sweepstakes" for admission to the most elite schools has resulted in increased stratification today. Geiger identifies 1980 as a turning point when the link between research and economic development stimulated a revival in academic research--and the ascendancy of the modern research university--that continues to the present. Sweeping in scope, this book 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. It provides the context we need to understand the complex issues facing our colleges and universities today, from rising inequality and skyrocketing costs to deficiencies in student preparedness and lax educational standards. --From publisher description.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216924
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Geiger provides an in-depth history of the remarkable transformation of higher education in the United States in the decades after World War II, taking readers from the GI Bill and the postwar expansion of higher education to the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, desegregation and coeducation, and the challenges confronting American colleges today. Shedding light on the tensions and triumphs of an era of rapid change, the author shows how American universities emerged after the war as the world's most successful system for the advancement of knowledge, how the pioneering of mass higher education led to the goal of higher education for all, and how the "selectivity sweepstakes" for admission to the most elite schools has resulted in increased stratification today. Geiger identifies 1980 as a turning point when the link between research and economic development stimulated a revival in academic research--and the ascendancy of the modern research university--that continues to the present. Sweeping in scope, this book 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. It provides the context we need to understand the complex issues facing our colleges and universities today, from rising inequality and skyrocketing costs to deficiencies in student preparedness and lax educational standards. --From publisher description.
Higher Education for American Democracy
Author: United States. President's Commission on Higher Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy and education
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy and education
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Higher Education for American Democracy...
Author: United States President of the United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Higher Education
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Studies ...
Author: American Council on Education
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Financing higher education
Author: United States. President's Commission on Higher Education
Publisher:
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Category : Democracy and education
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy and education
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Select List of Publications Issued by Senate and House Committees
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Organizing higher education
Author: United States. President's Commission on Higher Education
Publisher:
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Category : Democracy and education
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy and education
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Staffing higher education
Author: United States. President's Commission on Higher Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy and education
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy and education
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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