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03755aam a22004811i 4500 001 E9761BE269A611EAAA416F0A97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200319010012 008 190201t20192019nju b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2019933035 020 $a 0691179727 020 $a 9780691179728 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SAD $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a LA227.2 $b .G45 2019 082 04 $a 378.73 $2 23 100 1 $a Geiger, Roger L., $d 1943- 245 10 $a American higher education since World War II : $b a history / $c Roger L. Geiger. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xxi, 375 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a 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 ascendancy of the modern research university--that continues to the present. Sweeping in scope and richly insightful, this groundbreaking book demonstrates how growth has been the defining feature of modern higher education, but how each generation since the war has pursued it for different reasons. It provides the context we need to understand the complex issues facing our colleges and universities today, from rising inequality and skyrocketing costs to deficiencies in student preparedness and lax educational standards. -- $c Publisher. 505 00 $g Prologue: $t American higher education in the twenty-first century. $t The GI Bill and beyond : higher education, 1945-1955 -- $t Higher education and the American way of life in the conservative 1950s -- $t The ascendancy of the university -- $t Expansion and transformation -- $t The unraveling, 1965-1970 -- $t Surviving the seventies -- $t The dawn of the current era, 1980-2000 -- $t American higher education in the twenty-first century. 650 0 $a Education, Higher $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 20th century. 650 7 $a EDUCATION / Higher. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Education, Higher. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00903005 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 7 $a Bildungspolitik $2 gnd 650 7 $a Hochschule $2 gnd 650 7 $a UniversitaÌt $2 gnd 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 5 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214014918.0 952 $l KAPF566 $d 20230331013818.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20210728010830.0 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20200923010111.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20200319010332.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E9761BE269A611EAAA416F0A97128E48 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search