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Table of Contents:

• Part I. An overview of the history of higher education. History of universities / Harold Perkin
• Part II. Colonial higher education in the Americas, 1539-1789. College / Lawrence A. Cremin ; From religion to politics: debates and confrontations over American college governance in mid-eighteenth century America / Jürgen Herbst ; "For the children of the infidels": American Indian education in the colonial colleges / Bobby Wright ; From tutor to specialized scholar: academic professionalization in eighteenth and nineteenth century America / Martin Finkelstein ; The Scottish Enlightenment and the American college ideal / Douglas Sloan ; Freedom and constraint in eighteenth century Harvard / Kathryn M. Moore ; The social function of eighteenth century higher education / Phyllis Vine ; Statutes of Harvard, 1646 ; The Harvard Charter, 1650
• Part III. Higher education during the Antebellum period, 1790-1860. The Antebellum college and academy / Robert L. Church and Michael W. Sedlak ; "College enthusiasm" as public response: 1800-1860 / David B. Potts ; How to think about the Dartmouth College case / John S. Whitehead and Jürgen Herbst ; From republican motherhood to race suicide: arguments on the higher education of women in the United States, 1820-1920 / Patricia A. Palmieri - The impact of the "Cult of true womanhood" on the education of Black women / Linda M. Perkins ; The Yale Report of 1828
• Part IV. The rise of American universities and other postsecondary institutions during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Backdrop / Carol S. Gruber ; Misconceptions about the early land-grant colleges / Eldon L. Johnson ; The university and the social gospel: the intellectual origins of the "Wisconsin idea" / J. David Hoeveler, Jr. ; In search of a direction: Southern higher education after the Civil War / Joseph M. Stetar ; The origins of federal support for higher education / Roger L. Williams ; Research, graduate education, and the ecology of American universities: an interpretive history / Roger L. Geiger ; The development of the social sciences / Dorothy Ross ; Changes and increases in administrative personnel / John S. Brubacher and Willis Rudy ; Toward system / Hugh Hawkins ; The age of the college / W. Bruce Leslie ; Where coeds were coeducated: Normal schools in Wisconsin, 1870-1920 / Christine A. Ogren ; The Morrill Act, 1862 ; List of the 107 land-grant institutions in the United States and Its territories ; Liberty in education / Charles W. Eliot ; The nature and function of a university / Daniel Coit Gilman
• Part V. Higher education during the first half of the twentieth century: institutional diversity and discrimination. Professional education / John S. Brubacher and Willis Rudy ; Surveying the professions / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann ; The education of the educating professions / Lawrence A. Cremin ; An academic Gresham's Law: group repulsion as a theme in American higher education / Harold S. Wechsler ; Training the apostles of liberal culture: Black higher education, 1900-1935 / James D. Anderson ; The American compromise: Charles W. Eliot, Black education, and the New South / Jennings L. Wagoner, Jr. ; From seminary to university: an overview of women's higher education, 1870-1920 / Lynn D. Gordon ; Value conflict on the community college campus: an examination of its historical origins / Robert T. Pedersen ; Discrimination in college admissions / David O. Levine ; The turning point in American Jesuit higher education: the standardization controversy between the Jesuits and the North Central Association, 1915-1940 / Lester F. Goodchild ; The talented tenth / W.E.B. DuBois ; 1940 Statement of Principles / American Association of University Professors
• Part VI. The main trends in higher education after World War II: federalism and democratization. American higher education: past, present, and future / Martin A. Trow ; The world transformed: a golden age for American Universities, 1945-1970 / Richard M. Freeland ; McCarthyism and the professoriate: a historiographic nightmare / Philo A. Hutcheson ; From Truman to Johnson: ad hoc policy formulation in higher education / Janet C. Kerr ; A spectre is haunting American scholars: the spectre of "professionism" / Walter P. Metzger ; Historically Black colleges and universities: their place in American higher education / Julian B. Roebuck and Komanduri S. Murty ; Indian, Chicano, and Puerto Rican colleges: status and issues / Michael A. Olivas ; The female paradox: higher education for women, 1945-1963 / Paula S. Fass ; Overview of the unrest era / Alexander W. Astin, Helen S. Astin, Alan E. Bayer, and Ann S. Bisconti ; American student politics: activism in the midst of apathy / Philip G. Altbach ; The G.I. Bill of Rights, 1944 ; Report of the President's Commission on Higher Education, 1947 ; The Higher Education Act of 1965.

Contributors:

Goodchild, Lester F. , editor

Wechsler, Harold S., 1946-2017 , editor

Association for the Study of Higher Education

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Works:

ASHE reader on the history of higher education

Related Series:

ASHE reader series

Subjects:

Education, Higher — United States — History

Universities and colleges — United States — History

Education, Higher

Universities and colleges

United States

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Revised edition of ASHE reader on the history of higher education, Ginn, 1989.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 798 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Call Numbers:

LA226 .A85 1997

ISBNs:

053659869X (paperback)
9780536598691 (paperback)

OCLC Numbers:

37477718