American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005

Documenting the National Discourse
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8671-3
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 258 mm, Gewicht: 1102 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Wilson

Bender, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Terrain
The Harvard Reprt on General Education
Science
Faith and Modernity
The Newman Report
The Humanities
The Multiversity
Connecting
Primacy of American Higher Education
Horizons
Part II. Expanding and Reshaping
Truman Commission Report
The Challenge of Expansion
The Origin of Admissions Testing
California's Master Plan
Community Colleges
Diversification of Higher Education: Women
Diversification of Higher Education: Latino Americans
Lifelong Learning
The Soul of the University
Part III. Liberal Arts
Retrospect and Prospect
The Humanities in Wartimes
Revising the Curricula
The Mind of the University
Teaching the Connection
The Arts and Sciences in Decline
Part IV. Graduate Studies
Graduate Surveys and Prospects
Imporving the Status of Acadmeic Women
Consequences of Democratization
Rethinking the Ph.D.
Future Faculty
Part V. Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity
The Work of Disciplines
Area Studies
Black Studies
Women's Studies
Interdisciplinarity
Part VI. Academic Profession
The Intellectual Migration
At Work in the Academy
Working in Univerisities/Working in Business
Teachers as Labor and Management
Protocols and Ethics
Part VII. Conflicts on and Beyond Campus
What Should the University Do?
Campus Free Speech
A Learning Community
The Franklin Affair
Inquiries
Academic Commitment in Crisis Time
Part VIII. Government, Foundations, Corporations
Government
Foundations
Corporations
Part IX. The Coutrs and Equal Educational Opportunity
Toward Racial Equality
Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action Attacked
Part X. Academic Freedom
Setting the Standard
Coices of the Supreme Court
Voices from Professors
Part XI. Rights of Students
Directed by the Court and the Congress
Part XII. Academic Administrations
Management
Presidents Consider Their Jobs
Ruth Simmons Comes to Smith College
Greatness Retold

Über Autor(innen)

Bender, Thomas
Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time; Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States; and Community and Social Change in America; all published by Johns Hopkins.

Wilson Smith is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Davis. Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America, winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time; Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States; and Community and Social Change in America; all published by Johns Hopkins.