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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 and 1970s, desegregation and coeducation, and the challenges confronting American colleges today. Shedding critical light on the tensions and triumphs of an era of rapid change, Geiger shows how American universities emerged after the war as the world’s most successful system for the advancement of knowledge, how the pioneering of mass higher education led to the goal of higher education for all, and how the “selectivity sweepstakes” for admission to the most elite schools has resulted in increased stratification today. He identifies 1980 as a turning point when the link between research and economic development stimulated a revival in academic research—and the

Author

Roger L. Geiger

Publisher

Princeton University Press. 41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540. Tel: 800-777-4726; Tel: 609-258-4900; Fax: 609-258-6305; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://press.princeton.edu

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691179728

Subjects

History, Education