American Higher Education since World War II : A History /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Geiger, Roger L.
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Education, Higher > United States > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROLOGUE: AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORLD WAR II; PART I: AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION, 1945-1957; 1 THE GI BILL AND BEYOND: HIGHER EDUCATION, 1945-1955; The GI Bill; Ghosts of the New Deal: The President's Commission on Higher Education; General Education and Liberal Education; Defining Postwar America: The Cold War and McCarthyism; 2 HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE IN THE CONSERVATIVE 1950s; Who Should Go to College?; The Expansion of Public Higher Education; Private Colleges and Universities in the 1950s
Postwar UniversitiesPART II: THE LIBERAL HOUR, 1957-1968; 3 THE ASCENDANCY OF THE UNIVERSITY; The Federal Research Economy; Foundations and University Research; The Academic Revolution; Universities and American Society; 4 EXPANSION AND TRANSFORMATION; A Tidal Wave of Students; Mass Public Higher Education; Desegregation in the South, Diversity in the North; Curriculum, Quality, and Mass Higher Education; PART III: THE UNRAVELING AND THE NEW ERA, 1965-1980; 5 THE UNRAVELING, 1965-1970; SDS and the Growth of Student Radicalism; Academic Armageddon: The 1968 Era, 1967-1970
Aftermath and Beginning of a New Era6 SURVIVING THE SEVENTIES; The Federal Government and Higher Education; The Rise of Women; The Inversion of the Seventies: Students; The Inversion of the Seventies: Institutions; PART IV: THE CURRENT ERA IN AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION; 7 THE DAWN OF THE CURRENT ERA, 1980-2000; Universities and Economic Relevance: Revival of the Research Mission; Privatization: Public and Private Higher Education and the Selectivity Sweepstakes; The Culture Wars; 8 AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; The 1,000,000,000,000 Debt; Bifurcation Revisited
Returns to Higher EducationThe Learning Conundrum; University Culture in a Polarized America; Research Universities and the Knowledge Society; American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century; INDEX