A perfect mess the unlikely ascendancy of American higher education

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Labaree, David F., 1947- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press 2017
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A system without a plan
  • Elements of the American model of higher education
  • Unpromising roots
  • The ragtag college system in the nineteenth century
  • Adding the pinnacle and keeping the base
  • The graduate school crowns the system, 1880 - 1910
  • Mutual subversion
  • The liberal and the professional
  • Balancing access and advantage
  • Private advantage, public impact
  • Learning to love the bomb
  • America's brief cold war fling with the university as a public good
  • Upstairs, downstairs
  • Relations between the tiers of the system
  • A perfect mess.