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A History of American Higher Education
ISBN: 9780801880049 | 0801880041
Format: PaperbackPublisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR
Pub. Date: 5/12/2004
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Colleges and universities are among the most cherished institutions in American society -- and also among the most controversial. Yet affirmative action and skyrocketing tuition are only the most recent dissonant issues to emerge. Recounting the many crises and triumphs in the long history of American higher education, historian John Thelin provides welcome perspective on this influential aspect of American life. In A History of American Higher Education, Thelin offers a wide-ranging and engaging account of the origins and evolution of America'... MORE
| Acknowledgments | ix | ||
| Introduction: Historians and Higher Education | xiii | ||
| 1 Colleges in the Colonial Era | 1 | (40) | |
| 2 Creating the "American Way" in Higher Education: College-Building, 1785 to 1860 | 41 | (33) | |
| 3 Diversity and Adv... MORE | 74 | (36) | |
| 4 Captains of Industry and Erudition: University-Builders, 1880 to 1910 | 110 | (45) | |
| 5 Alma Mater: America Goes to College, 1890 to 1920 | 155 | (50) | |
| 6 Success and Excess: Expansion and Reforms in Higher Education, 1920 to 1945 | 205 | (55) | |
| 7 Gilt by Association: Higher Education's "Golden Age," 1945 to 1970 | 260 | (57) | |
| 8 Coming of Age in America: Higher Education as a Troubled Giant, 1970 to 2000 | 317 | (46) | |
| Notes | 363 | (30) | |
| Essay on Sources | 393 | (16) | |
| Index | 409 |
John R. Thelin is University Research Professor and a member of the Educational Policy Studies Department at the University of Kentucky. His many books include Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics, also available from Johns Hopkins.
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