"Laboratories of Inter-Race and Interfaith Fellowship": "Higher Education for American Democracy's" Vision for a More Democratic Academy and Country

Autor/in	Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy
Titel	"Laboratories of Inter-Race and Interfaith Fellowship": "Higher Education for American Democracy's" Vision for a More Democratic Academy and Country
Quelle	In: Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 54 (2022) 1, S.9-16 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-1383
DOI	10.1080/00091383.2022.2006563
Schlagwörter	Democracy; Higher Education; Educational History; Veterans; Federal Legislation; Work Study Programs; Racial Discrimination; Politics of Education; Reports; Equal Education; Dissent; Federal Aid; Access to Education; Government Role; Educational Legislation; National Security + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Demokratie; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Kriegsteilnehmer; Veteran; Bundesrecht; Racial bias; Rassismus; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Abschlussbericht; Berichten; Dissens; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; National territory; Security; Staatsgebiet; Sicherheit
Abstract	There was a lot of talk about both the fate of American democracy and American higher education in 2021, but not much consideration about how the two were deeply intertwined. The 1947 report "Higher Education for American Democracy" showed awareness of how race, sex, class, and religious discrimination thwarted the talents and ambitions of citizens and immigrants to the detriment of the country's democratic potential. The report's authors argued that far more was at stake than the country's or individual citizens' economic well-being. The very health, vitality, and future of American democracy hinged on a well-funded, genuinely inclusive academy. The report was both representative and radical for its time. It openly recognized the expense of a college education, highlighted nationwide discriminatory admissions practices, demanded an end to legally segregated schooling, called for investment in (what would eventually be called) historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), insisted on federal funding for city and state campuses, and tied such support to equal opportunities to enroll. Those and other suggestions were meant to build and sustain a genuinely affordable, accessible mass higher education that the commissioners argued would make the Republic more democratic. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01