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03795aam a2200469 i 4500 001 C648067C6FD711EE93D6B80232ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231021010103 008 211105t20222022ilu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021054637 020 $a 022682019X 020 $a 9780226820194 020 $a 022682022X 020 $a 9780226820224 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d TOH $d YDX $d XFF $d MTG $d DLC $d IVU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a LA227.1 $b .R57 2022 082 00 $a 378.73/0904 $2 23 100 1 $a Ris, Ethan W., $e author. 245 10 $a Other people's colleges : $b the origins of American higher education reform / $c Ethan W. Ris. 246 30 $a Origins of American higher education reform 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 387 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-368) and index (pages 369-387).. 520 $a "America's constant push to make its colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable is not a new phenomenon. Indeed, in Other People's Colleges, Ethan Ris argues that the reform impulse is baked into American higher education. For well over one hundred years, elite reformers have called for sweeping changes in the sector and raised existential questions about its sustainability. Colleges and universities have responded with a combination of resistance and acquiescence. The end result is a sector that has learned to accept top-down reform as part of its existence. When that reform is beneficial (offering major rewards for minor changes), colleges and universities know how to assimilate it. When it is hostile (attacking autonomy or values), they know how to resist it. In the early twentieth century, the "academic engineers," a cadre of elite, external reformers from foundations, businesses, and government, worked to reshape and reorganize the vast base of the higher education pyramid. Their reform efforts were largely directed at the lower tiers of higher education, but their efforts fell short, despite their wealth and power, leaving a legacy of successful resistance that affects every college and university in the United States. Today, another coalition of business leaders, philanthropists, and politicians are again demanding efficiency, accountability, and utility from American higher education. But top-down design is not destiny. Today's reform agenda in higher education should not be viewed as a new existential threat. It is a longstanding fact of life to be assimilated, diverted, or subverted on an ongoing basis"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 00 $g Conclusion: $t four legacies. $t The academic engineers -- $t Toward system -- $t The program of reform. -- $t The higher education pyramid -- $t "The practical life" -- $t Separate and unequal -- $t The decline of reform -- $t The counter-reformation -- $t Organized resistance -- $t A new consensus and a new ethos -- $g Conclusion: $t four legacies. 650 0 $a Education, Higher $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Educational change $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 6 $a Enseignement $x Histoire $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 7 $a EDUCATION / History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Education, Higher. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00903005 650 7 $a Educational change. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00903371 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 710 2 $a University of Chicago. $b Press, $e publisher. 941 $a 2 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214014748.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20231021031950.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C648067C6FD711EE93D6B80232ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search