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[1st ed.] |
| Description |
xvii, 580 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 545-558. |
| Contents |
1. Academic revolution in perspective: Traditional colleges and their clients -- Spread of meritocratic institutions -- Rise of the university -- University college -- 2. War between the generations: Academic age-grading yesterday and today -- Role of student subcultures -- Adult backlash and the "safe" colleges -- 3. Social stratification and mass higher education: Education versus certification -- Social stratification in America -- Cultural stratification in America -- Emergence of mass higher education -- Higher education as a social sieve -- College versus the upwardly mobile: pricing -- College versus the upwardly mobile: tests -- College versus the upwardly mobile: motivation -- Toward a more open society: financial reform -- Toward a more open society: academic reform -- Mobility or equality? -- 4. Nationalism versus localism: Early localists -- Rise of national professions -- Non-meritocratic nationalization -- Politics, taxes, and localism -- Regional variations -- Localism, pluralism, and meritocracy -- Localism and commuting -- Geographic dispersion and community development -- Age and sponsorship in nationalization -- 5. Professional schools: Professionalism and its consequences -- Seminaries -- Medical schools -- Military academies -- Engineering schools -- Teachers colleges -- Graduate schools of arts and sciences -- An overview -- 6. Class interests and the "public-private" controversy: Bifurcation of higher education -- Financing of public and private colleges -- Admissions requirements in the public and private sectors -- College imagery and self-imagery -- 7. Feminism, masculinism, and coeducation: Rise of coeducation -- Women's colleges -- 8. Protestant denominations and their colleges: Protestant denominationalism -- Diversity, separatism, and the founding of new colleges -- natural selection and evolution among denominational colleges -- Holdouts face the future -- 9. Catholics and their colleges: Catholicism in America -- Control of Catholic colleges -- Professionalism: clerical versus lay models -- Defining a clientele: sex -- Defining a clientele: geography -- Defining a clientele: class -- Defining a clientele: ethnicity -- Future of the Catholic colleges -- 10. Negroes and their colleges: Negroes in America -- Evolution of the Negro colleges -- Fruits of oppression -- Future of the Negro colleges: recruitment -- Future of the private Negro colleges -- Alternatives for the private Negro colleges -- Future of the public Negro colleges -- Conclusion and postscript -- 11. Anti-university colleges: Community college movement -- General education movement -- Other non-academic professions and organizations -- 12. Reforming the graduate schools: Pitfalls of nostalgia -- Starting at the top -- "Pure" versus "applied" work -- Disciplines versus subdisciplines: the need for more mobility and anarchy -- Art of teaching. |
| Subject |
Education, Higher -- History.
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Education, Higher. |
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History. |
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Universities and colleges -- United States -- History.
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Universities and colleges. |
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United States. |
| Added Author |
Riesman, David, 1909-2002.
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