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American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005
. Ed(S): Smith, Wilson; Bender, Thomas
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Description for American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005
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. Editor(s): Smith, Wilson; Bender, Thomas. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JMC; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1135.
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 S weezy 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, ... Read more
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 S weezy 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801886713
SKU
V9780801886713
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About . Ed(S): Smith, Wilson; Bender, Thomas
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; ... Read more
Reviews for American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005
A thoughtfully produced, thought-provoking resource that will be of interest to anyone concerned with policy and administration in American higher education. Book News 2008 Wilson Smith and Thomas Bender offer a judicious selection of documents that highlight important transitions, ideas, and episodes from the last six decades of higher learning in the United States. Harvard Educational Review 2008 Wilson Smith ... Read more