Higher Education for All
Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan
Seiten
2023
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7290-8 (ISBN)
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7290-8 (ISBN)
Through archival work and attention to a fascinating cast of historical characters, Andrew Stone Higgins excavates the forgotten history of the 1960 California Master Plan, from its origins in the Sputnik Crisis, to Ronald Reagan’s financial starvation, and to the student struggle to institute affirmative action in university admissions.
The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college education in the United States. Yet the Master Plan, the product of committed Cold War liberals, unfortunately served to reinforce the very class-based exclusions and de facto racism that plagued K–12 education in the nation's largest and most diverse state. In doing so, it inspired a wave of student and faculty organizing that forced administrators and politicians to live up to the original promise of the Master Plan—quality higher education for all—and, in doing so, changed the face of California itself.
Higher Education for All is the first and only comprehensive account of the California Master Plan. Through deep archival work and sharp attention to a fascinating cast of historical characters, Andrew Stone Higgins has excavated the forgotten history of the Master Plan, from its origins in the 1957 Sputnik Crisis, through Governor Ronald Reagan's financial starvation and failed quest to introduce tuition, and to the student struggle to institute affirmative action in university admissions.
The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college education in the United States. Yet the Master Plan, the product of committed Cold War liberals, unfortunately served to reinforce the very class-based exclusions and de facto racism that plagued K–12 education in the nation's largest and most diverse state. In doing so, it inspired a wave of student and faculty organizing that forced administrators and politicians to live up to the original promise of the Master Plan—quality higher education for all—and, in doing so, changed the face of California itself.
Higher Education for All is the first and only comprehensive account of the California Master Plan. Through deep archival work and sharp attention to a fascinating cast of historical characters, Andrew Stone Higgins has excavated the forgotten history of the Master Plan, from its origins in the 1957 Sputnik Crisis, through Governor Ronald Reagan's financial starvation and failed quest to introduce tuition, and to the student struggle to institute affirmative action in university admissions.
Andrew Stone Higgins is a historian and teacher in Boston.
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.04.2023 |
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Verlagsort | Chapel Hill |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 286 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4696-7290-1 / 1469672901 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4696-7290-8 / 9781469672908 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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