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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... Issues?'' 2001 514 Ruth Simmons Comes to Smith College 10. Leo O'Donovan and Nannerl Keohane, ''Sister President: Ruth J. Simmons,'' 1996 516 Greatness Retold 11. Hanna Gray, ''On the History of Giants,'' 1998 517 A Brief Concordance of ...
... issues in a society that aspires to equality in educational opportunities and a common enticement to learning without expecting uniform achievements. We hope the reader will bear in mind the theme for these endeavors that long ago was ...
... issues at home—poverty, race, and injustice—and war abroad. Military research was often a focal point, and ROTC was a local symbol of militarism that mobilized protest on many campuses (VII, 7–10). Before World War I, many of the most ...
... issues they would have to confront—first and foremost, rapid social, scientific, and technological change. The past was thus placed in the service of the future, and this provided a rationale for the broad liberal arts emphasis ...
Documenting the National Discourse Wilson Smith, Thomas Bender. risome issues of civic education, shaped the faculty and the curriculum (V, 3). By the end of the century, it was common for critics to insist that what the faculty wanted ...
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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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