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

Sonst. Personen	Smith, Wilson (Hrsg.); Bender, Thomas (Hrsg.)
Titel	American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005: Documenting the National Discourse
Quelle	(2008), (544 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-8018-8671-3
Schlagwörter	Nachschlagewerk; Higher Education; Educational History; Educational Objectives; Goal Orientation; College Administration; Administrative Organization; College Curriculum; College Admission; Admission Criteria; Student Diversity; College Faculty; Federal Aid; Private Financial Support; Academic Freedom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Admission; Admission procedures; Zulassungsbedingung; Zulassungsverfahren; Fakultät; Private Investition; Akademische Freiheit
Abstract	This long-awaited sequel to Richard Hofstadter and Wilson 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 underscores responses of higher education to a memorable, often tumultuous, half century. Colleges and universities faced a transformation of their educational goals, institutional structures and curricula, and admission policies; the ethnic and economic composition of student bodies; an expanding social and gender membership in the professoriate; their growing allegiance to and dependence on federal and foundation financial aids; and even the definitions and defenses of academic freedom. Wilson Smith and Thomas Bender have assembled an essential reference for policymakers, administrators, and all those interested in the history and sociology of higher education. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10