American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005 Documenting the National Discourse

Name: American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005 Documenting the National Discourse
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ISBN: 9780801886713

ISBN-10: 0801886716

ISBN-13: 9780801886713

Edition: 2007

Authors: Wilson Smith, Thomas Bender

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This long-awaited sequel to Hofstadter and Smith's classic anthology American Higher Education: A Documentary History presents one hundred and seventy-two key edited documents that record the transformation of higher education over the past sixty years. The volume includes such seminal documents as Vannevar Bush's 1945 report to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Science, the Endless Frontier; the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education and Sweezy v. New Hampshire; and Adrienne Rich's challenging essay "Taking Women Students Seriously." The wide variety of readings underscore responses of higher education to a memorable, often tumultuous, half century. Colleges and…

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List price: $84.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 3/4/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 544
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English




The Terrain


The Harvard Report on General Education


Science


Faith and Modernity


The Newman Report


The Humanities


The Multiversity


Connecting


Primacy of American Higher Education


Horizons



Expanding and Reshaping


Truman Commission Report


The Challenge of Expansion


The Origin of Admissions Testing


California's Master Plan


Community Colleges


Diversification of Higher Education: Women


Diversification of Higher Education: African Americans


Diversification of Higher Education: Latino Americans


Open Admissions


Lifelong Learning


The Soul of the University



Liberal Arts


Retrospect and Prospect


The Humanities in Wartime


Revising the Curricula


The Mind of the University


Teaching the Connection


The Arts and Sciences in Decline



Graduate Studies


Graduate Surveys and Prospects


Improving the Status of Academic Women


Consequences of Democratization


Rethinking the Ph.D.


Future Faculty



Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity


The Work of Disciplines


Area Studies


Black Studies


Women's Studies


Interdisciplinarity



Academic Profession


The Intellectual Migration


At Work in the Academy


Working in Universities / Working in Business


Teachers as Labor and Management


Protocols and Ethics



Conflicts on and Beyond Campus


What Should the University Do?


Campus Free Speech


A Learning Community


The Franklin Affair


Inquiries


Academic Commitment in Crisis Times



Government, Foundations, Corporations


Government


Foundations


Corporations



The Courts and Equal Educational Opportunity


Toward Racial Equality


Affirmative Action


Affirmative Action Attacked



Academic Freedom


Setting the Standard


Voices of the Supreme Court


Voices from Professors



Rights of Students


Directed by the Court and the Congress



Academic Administration


Management


Presidents Consider Their Jobs


Ruth Simmons comes to Smith College


Greatness Retold


A Brief Concordance of Major Subjects