American Higher Education Transformed, 1940--2005
Subtitle: Documenting the National Discourse
Contributors: Wilson Smith (Editor); Thomas Bender (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780801886713
Subjects: Higher & further education; 21st century; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Higher Education (General); History Of Higher Education; Education; Education / Teaching; USA; Higher; United States - General; Education / Higher; 20th century; Education, Higher; History; United States
Description: "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." "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."--Jacket.