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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... culture of technological and corporate innovation.∂ Universities began actively to commercialize their research capacity with private sector partners and many, even some of the most prestigious, extended their ''classrooms'' through ...
... cultural diversity of the nation at large, the more that the tensions and conflicts of the larger culture began to play themselves out in institutions of higher learning. Certain conventions, from teas for faculty wives hosted by the ...
... Culture of the University (Cambridge, MA, 1995), 24. 12. For an exceptionally illuminating first-person ac- count of the color line in respect to faculty appointments by the first black scholar to chair a department in other than at a ...
... culture, there are also continuities. For instance, it would be wrong to construe the scientific outlook as inimical to human values. Even if it were true that science is concerned with means only, it would not follow that science ...
... culture. Here we revert to what was said at the start of this chapter on the aims of education in our society. It was argued there that two complementary forces are at the root of our culture: on the one hand, an ideal of man and so ...
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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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