American Higher Education In The Postwar Era 1945 1970

Author : Roger L. Geiger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351597728
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Higher Education in the Postwar Era, 1945-1970 written by Roger L. Geiger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, returning veterans with GI Bill benefits ushered in an era of unprecedented growth that fundamentally altered the meaning, purpose, and structure of higher education. This volume explores the multifaceted and tumultuous transformation of American higher education that occurred between 1945 and 1970, while examining the changes in institutional forms, curricula, clientele, faculty, and governance. A wide range of well-known contributors cover topics such as the first public university to explicitly serve an urban population, the creation of modern day honors programs, how teachers’ colleges were repurposed as state colleges, the origins of faculty unionism and collective bargaining, and the dramatic student protests that forever changed higher education. This engaging text explores a critical moment in the history of higher education, signaling a shift in the meaning of a college education, the concept of who should and who could obtain access to college, and what should be taught.

Author : Nathan Marsh Pusey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674024250
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Higher Education, 1945-1970 written by Nathan Marsh Pusey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Pusey deals with such crucial changes in university education as its increasing availability to a far greater percentage of an enlarged population; the broadening of undergraduate curricula; and the burgeoning of graduate degree programs and research activity.

Author : Hugh Davis Graham
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801880636
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of American Research Universities written by Hugh Davis Graham and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-09-27 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important and timely work, Graham and Diamond reassess the success of American universities as research institutions and the role of public funding in their developmentfrom the expansionist golden yearsof the 1950s and '60s, through the austerity measures of the 1970s and the entrepreneurial ethos of the 1980s, to the budget crises universities face in the 1990s.

Author : Roger L. Geiger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691216924
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Higher Education Since World War II written by Roger L. Geiger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher education 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 an 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 ascendancy of the modern research university. He 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. Sweeping in scope and richly insightful, this groundbreaking book 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.

Author : Marvin Lazerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discontent in the Field of Dreams written by Marvin Lazerson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ethan Schrum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501736663
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Instrumental University written by Ethan Schrum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Instrumental University, Ethan Schrum provides an illuminating genealogy of the educational environment in which administrators, professors, and students live and work today. After World War II, research universities in the United States underwent a profound mission change. The Instrumental University combines intellectual, institutional, and political history to reinterpret postwar American life through the changes in higher education. Acknowledging but rejecting the prevailing conception of the Cold War university largely dedicated to supporting national security, Schrum provides a more complete and contextualized account of the American research university between 1945 and 1970. Uncovering a pervasive instrumental understanding of higher education during that era, The Instrumental University shows that universities framed their mission around solving social problems and promoting economic development as central institutions in what would soon be called the knowledge economy. In so doing, these institutions took on more capitalistic and managerial tendencies and, as a result, marginalized founding ideals, such as pursuit of knowledge in academic disciplines and freedom of individual investigators. The technocratic turn eroded some practices that made the American university special. Yet, as Schrum suggests, the instrumental university was not yet the neoliberal university of the 1970s and onwards in which market considerations trumped all others. University of California president Clark Kerr and other innovators in higher education were driven by a progressive impulse that drew on an earlier tradition grounded in a concern for the common good and social welfare.

Author : Roger L. Geiger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173060
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of American Higher Education written by Roger L. Geiger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II. The author traces how colleges and universities were shaped by the shifting influences of culture, the emergence of new career opportunities, and the unrelenting advancement of knowledge. He describes how colonial colleges developed a unified yet diverse educational tradition capable of weathering the social upheaval of the Revolution as well as the evangelical fervor of the Second Great Awakening. He shows how the character of college education in different regions diverged significantly in the years leading up to the Civil War - for example, the state universities of the antebellum South were dominated by the sons of planters and their culture - and how higher education was later revolutionized by the land-grant movement, the growth of academic professionalism, and the transformation of campus life by students. By the beginning of the Second World War, the standard American university had taken shape, setting the stage for the postwar education boom. The author moves through each era, exploring the growth of higher education.

Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conference Workbook on Problems of Post-war Higher Education written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Eisenmann
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882616
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965 written by Linda Eisenmann and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Roger L. Geiger
Publisher : Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Private Sectors in Higher Education written by Roger L. Geiger and published by Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly treatment of private education outside the United States.