American Higher Education Transformed, 1940–2005: Documenting the National DiscourseWilson Smith, Thomas Bender JHU Press, 2008 M04 11 - 544 páginas 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. |
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... believe to be the limitations of humanism, which are those of pride and arise from making man the measure of all things. But it need not have these limitations, since it is equally compatible with a religious view of life. Thus it is ...
... believe in the equality of human beings is to believe that the good life, and the education which trains the citizen for the good life, are equally the privilege of all. And these are the touchstones of the liberated man; first, is he ...
... believe that our proposals will minimize that e√ect, but we do not think that it can be completely avoided. We submit, however, that the Nation's need for more and better scientific research is such that the risk must be accepted. It ...
... believe that they can channel contemporary biology to fit their own conception of appropriate research. I wish to argue that the traditional pact between society and its scientists in which the scientist is given the responsibility for ...
... believe that genetic engineering, because of its tabloid appeal, has become a symbol to many people of the frightening potential of modern-day technology. Rather than seeing in molecular biology the same complex mixtures of appropriate ...
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Part II Expanding and Reshaping | 83 |
Part III Liberal Arts | 163 |
Part IV Graduate Studies | 203 |
Part V Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity | 239 |
Part VI Academic Profession | 293 |
Part VII Conflicts on and Beyond Campus | 345 |
Part VIII Government Foundations Corporations | 393 |
Part IX The Courts and Equal Educational Opportunity | 435 |
Part X Academic Freedom | 453 |
Part XI Rights of Students | 483 |
Part XII Academic Administration | 493 |
A Brief Concordance of Major Subjects | 523 |
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