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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... values became more influential in admissions as higher education became more important for the society and for individuals. By 1960, institutions of higher learning were incorporated into the center of American society.∞ With the ...
... values of freedom and democracy in the emerging Cold War contest with the Soviet Union. The historical disciplines, it was argued, were essential to develop in citizens the capacity to understand and manage the social and ethical issues ...
... value but also to distinguish it from the subjective and ideological scholarship thought to have characterized the ... values.≥∂ Middle range and equilibrium theories prevailed in the social sciences, identified respectively with the ...
... values —merit, research opportunities, greater autonomy, and better students—increasingly shaped the culture of colleges and universities (VI, 2–7, 14–17). This incorporation of faculty values was characterized at the time by ...
... values of academe.∑Ω In conservative times, university faculties tend to be more progressive than the general society on issues of racial and gender equality, personal lifestyles and speech rights, multicultural diversity and ...
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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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