American Higher Education since World War II (eBook)

A History

Roger L. Geiger (Autor)

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2019
400 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19064-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher educationAmerican 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. Roger Geiger provides the most complete and 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 1960s and 1970s, desegregation and coeducation, and the challenges confronting American colleges today.Shedding critical light on the tensions and triumphs of an era of rapid change, Geiger 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 "e;selectivity sweepstakes"e; for admission to the most elite schools has resulted in increased stratification today. He 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 and richly insightful, this groundbreaking 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.

Autor

Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education Emeritus at Pennsylvania State University. His books include The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II (Princeton) and Knowledge and Money: Research Universities and the Paradox of the Marketplace. He lives in State College, Pennsylvania.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.7.2019
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The William G. Bowen Series
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Schlagworte: Academic achievement • academic degree • academic department • academic freedom • Academic tenure • Affirmative Action • African Americans • alumnus • American Council on Education • americans • Attendance • Bachelor's degree • California Institute of Technology • Career • Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education • Caroline Hoxby • Clark Kerr • College Board • Commission on Higher Education (Philippines) • community college • Counterculture • credential • culture war • Curriculum • desegregation • doctorate • Doctor of Philosophy • Economic Growth • Economics • economist • Education • Education Act • Employment • freshman • Funding • G.I. Bill • Graduate school • Graduation • Great Society • Harvard University Press • higher education • Higher education in the United States • Historically Black Colleges and Universities • Ideology • income • Institution • Ivy League • johns hopkins • junior college • Law School • learning • Legislation • Liberal arts education • Liberal Education • master's degree • McCarthyism • medical school • Meritocracy • National Science Foundation • of education • Ohio State University • Oxford University Press • Pennsylvania State University • Politics • post-industrial society • Princeton University Press • Private School • private sector • private university • Profession • Professional School • Professor • Public institution (United States) • Public university • Requirement • salary • SAT • Scholarship • Scientist • secondary education • Secondary School • Social Class • Social Science • Sociology • Stanford University Press • State University of New York • Student • student loan • student protest • Teacher • Trade Union • Tuition payments • undergraduate education • University • University of California • University of Chicago • Urban university • vocational education • World War I • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19064-X / 069119064X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19064-8 / 9780691190648