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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... . Simmons,'' 1996 516 Greatness Retold 11. Hanna Gray, ''On the History of Giants,'' 1998 517 A Brief Concordance of Major Subjects 523 Preface The people who transformed American colleges and universities in contents xi.
... major appraisal of prewar social science and humanities research recorded recent improvement but argued that the larger pattern was nonetheless marked and marred by ''fact finding,'' ''over-specialization,'' and ''trivial investigations ...
... , in the minds of some) with those of major corporations (VIII, 13–14).∏∑ The move into the patent market was, however, a financial windfall for leading universities. In 8 american higher education transformed, 1940–2005.
... major task of education is to perpetuate them. This conclusion raises one of the most fundamental problems of education, indeed of society itself: how to reconcile this necessity for common belief with the equally obvious necessity for ...
... major impact on the prevention and treatment of human disease, a backlash already seems to be developing in which various groups in our society question whether the freedom that has characteristically been granted to research biologists ...
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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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