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• Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
• File Size : 30,8 Mb
• Release Date : 02 April 2019

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

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 31,6 Mb
• Release Date : 19 June 2019

This pathbreaking textbook addresses key issues which have often been condemned to exceptions and footnotes—if not ignored completely—in historical considerations of U.S. higher education; particularly race, ethnicity,

• Publisher : JHU Press
• File Size : 43,5 Mb
• Release Date : 11 October 2011

Colleges and universities are among the most cherished—and controversial—institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers

• Publisher : JHU Press
• File Size : 38,5 Mb
• Release Date : 06 July 2021

The thoroughly updated second edition of this dynamic and thoughtful collection focuses on the issues that have shaped American higher education in the past decade. Essential Documents in the History

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 47,5 Mb
• Release Date : 06 September 2016

This book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II. The author traces how colleges and

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 14 October 2013

The first volume in the Core Concepts of Higher Education series, The History of U.S. Higher Education: Methods for Understanding the Past is a unique research methods textbook that

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 30,8 Mb
• Release Date : 23 November 2017

At a time when American higher education seems ever more to be reflecting on its purpose and potential, we are more inclined than ever to look to its history for

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 49,5 Mb
• Release Date : 25 May 2021

A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher education In the decades after World War II, as government and social support surged and enrollments exploded, the role of

• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• File Size : 28,5 Mb
• Release Date : 06 June 2017

Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 49,8 Mb
• Release Date : 05 July 2017

At a time when our colleges and universities face momentous questions of new growth and direction, the republication of Higher Education in Transition is more timely than ever. Beginning with