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• Publisher : JHU Press
• File Size : 35,9 Mb
• Release Date : 25 February 2005

This new edition explores current issues of central importance to the academy: leadership, accountability, access, finance, technology, academic freedom, the canon, governance, and race. Chapters also deal with key constituencies

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 22 March 2015

A sweeping assessment of the state of higher education today from former Harvard president Derek Bok Higher Education in America is a landmark work--a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the

• Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
• File Size : 21,9 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 : Melville House
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• Release Date : 23 October 2018

The dramatic expose of how the University of Oregon sold its soul to Nike, and what that means for the future of our public institutions and our society. **A New

• Publisher : Routledge
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• 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 : Routledge
• File Size : 33,5 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2012

Diversity has been a focus of higher education policy, law, and scholarship for decades, continually expanding to include not only race, ethnicity and gender, but also socioeconomic status, sexual and

• Publisher : Stanford University Press
• File Size : 48,5 Mb
• Release Date : 03 January 2007

Throughout the twentieth century, public universities were established across the United States at a dizzying pace, transforming the scope and purpose of American higher education. Leading the way was California,

• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
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• Release Date : 13 December 2022

The latest book in the Core Concepts in Higher Education series brings to life issues of governance, organization, teaching and learning, student life, faculty, finances, college sports, public policy, fundraising

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• 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 : University of Virginia Press
• File Size : 51,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 1970

Thomas Jefferson once stated that the foremost goal of American education must be to nurture the "natural aristocracy of talent and virtue." Although in many ways American higher education has