[PDF] American Higher Education Transformed 1940 2005

• Author : Wilson Smith,Thomas Bender
• Publisher : JHU Press
• Release Date : 2008-04-11
• ISBN : 0801895855

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.

• Author : John R. Thelin
• Publisher : JHU Press
• Release Date : 2019-04-02
• ISBN : 9781421428840

Anyone studying the history of this institution in America must read Thelin's classic text, which has distinguished itself as the most wide-ranging and engaging account of the origins and evolution of America's institutions of higher learning.

• Author : Michael N. Bastedo,Philip G. Altbach,Patricia J. Gumport
• Publisher : JHU Press
• Release Date : 2016-03-30
• ISBN : 9781421419909

American Higher Education in the Twenty-first century offers a comprehensive introduction to the central issues facing American colleges and universities. The contributors address major changes in higher education--including the rise of organized social movements, the problem of income inequality and stratification, the growth of for-profit and distance education, online education, community colleges, and teaching and learning-- will placing American higher education and its complex social and political context. --Cover.

• Author : Arthur M. Cohen
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2007-08-17
• ISBN : 9780787998264

Cohen organizes the book around a unique matrix of trends, topics, and eras that enables the reader either to proceed chapter by chapter through a chronological sequence of the entire history, or to easily follow a preferred topic, such as faculty or curriculum, by reading only that specific section in each era.

• Author : Goldie Blumenstyk
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release Date : 2014-09-30
• ISBN : 9780199374083

American higher education is at a crossroads. Technological innovations and disruptive market forces are buffeting colleges and universities at the very time their financial structure grows increasingly fragile. Disinvestment by states has driven up tuition prices at public colleges, and student debt has reached a startling record-high of one trillion dollars. Cost-minded students and their families--and the public at large--are questioning the worth of a college education, even as study after study shows how important it is to economic and

• Author : J Donald Monan Sj Professor of Higher Education and Director Philip G Altbach,Philip G. Altbach,Patricia J. Gumport,D. Bruce Johnstone,Johnstone, Donald Bruce Johnstone
• Publisher : JHU Press
• Release Date : 2001-09-05
• ISBN : 0801866553

The current era in higher education is characterized by increased need for accountability and fiscal constraint coupled with demands for increased productivity. Higher education is expected to meet the demand of changing student demographics, as well as requests for research and service from government and industry. To preserve the academy's ability to meet these demands, the editors and contributors to this volume argue that, while change is inevitable and desirable, any radical alterations to the practices that have established and

• Author : United States,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2003
• ISBN : PURD:32754077081630

• Author : James Fonseca,Alice C. Andrews
• Publisher : NYU Press
• Release Date : 1995-05
• ISBN : 081472633X

Here is an essential reference book which will be enthusiastically welcomed by all those interested in American higher education. This innovative approach to the presentation of educational information is a welcome change from the traditional portrayal of such data in the form of dry statistics, tables, and charts. The striking visual approach provides the reader with a clear, concise understanding of higher education in this country and furnishes a comprehensive overview of current trends. By seeing the data graphically portrayed,

• Author : Roger L. Geiger
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release Date : 2019-07-02
• ISBN : 9780691190648

A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher education American higher education is nearly four centuries old. But in the decades after World War II, as government and social support surged and enrollments exploded, the role of colleges and universities in American society changed dramatically. Roger Geiger provides the most complete and in-depth history of this remarkable transformation, taking readers from the GI Bill and the postwar expansion of higher education to the social upheaval of the 1960s

• Author : Gail E. Hawisher
• Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
• Release Date : 1996
• ISBN : 9781567502527

This book is a history composed of histories. Its particular focus is the way in which computers entered and changed the field of composition studies, a field that defines itself both as a research community and as a community of teachers. This may have a somewhat sinister suggestion that technology alone has agency, but this history (made of histories) is not principally about computers. It is about people-the teachers and scholars who have adapted the computer to their personal and

• Author : Logan Wilson
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1971
• ISBN : UOM:39015026842263

• Author : Everett Carll Ladd,Seymour Martin Lipset,Carnegie Commission on Higher Education
• Publisher : Berkeley, Calif : Carnegie Commission on Higher Education
• Release Date : 1973
• ISBN : UOM:39015000669088

• Author : Arthur M. Cohen,Carrie B. Kisker
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2009-12-09
• ISBN : 9780470480069

THE SHAPING OF AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION SECOND EDITION When the first edition of The Shaping of American Higher Education was published it was lauded for its historical perspective and in-depth coverage of current events that provided an authoritative, comprehensive account of??the history of higher education in the United States. As in the first edition, this book tracks trends and important issues in eight key areas: student access, faculty professionalization, curricular expansion, institutional growth, governance, finance, research, and outcomes. Thoroughly

• Author : Pedro Estandarte Y. Rio
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1935
• ISBN : UCAL:$B67964

• Author : Howard Eugene Wilson,Florence Heden Wilson,Heden Wilson
• Publisher : Washington, American Council on Education
• Release Date : 1963
• ISBN : UOM:39015062957249