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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... doctoral student and now a professor of law at Chicago-Kent School of Law, contributed both creative document research and valuable substantive suggestions. David Gibney and Paula Segal, then undergraduates at NYU, helped to ''clean up ...
... doctoral fellowships, thereby contributing to the diversification in the social background of graduate students and thus college and university teachers (VIII, 4). (The Vietnam War and the domestic turmoil surrounding it also drew ...
... doctoral students. At Harvard, to give the most notable example, the arts and science faculty increased seven times faster than the number of students, yet the proportion of undergraduate courses in the college decreased by 28 percent ...
... doctorate in genetics at the University of Texas (1932). Most of his academic career was spent in Baltimore, first at Goucher College (1938–47) and next in a distinguished tenure at Johns Hopkins (1947–65). He moved to the State ...
... Swarthmore College (B.A. 1960), and received his doctorate at Rockefeller University (1964), where he later served as its president (1990–91). He long held a distinguished tenure 30 the terrain 5. ''Limiting Science,'' 1978.
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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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