Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
"This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state. Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy education to ready citizens for the national, bureaucratized, and increasingly global world in which they lived. Loss details the myriad ways in which academic leaders and students shaped, and were shaped by, the state's shifting political agenda as it moved from a preoccupation with economic security during the Great Depression, to national security during World War II and the Cold War, to securing the rights of African Americans, women, and other previously marginalized groups during the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, Loss reappraises the origins of higher education's current-day diversity regime, the growth of identity group politics, and the privatization of citizenship at the close of the twentieth century. At a time when people's faith in government and higher education is being sorely tested, this book sheds new light on the close relations between American higher education and politics"--
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
Federal aid to higher education, Higher Education, Aims and objectives, EDUCATION / Higher, Higher education and state, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, History, Education, higher, aims and objectives, Education, higher, political aspects, Education, higher, social aspects, Education, higher, united states, United states, history, Enseignement supérieur, Politique gouvernementale, Aide de l'État à l'enseignement supérieur, Finalités, Aspect politique, Aspect social, Aspect économique, EDUCATION, Finance, HISTORY, Economic aspects, Political aspects, Social aspectsPlaces
United StatesShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Politics and society in twentieth century America: the politics of American higher education in the 20th century
2011, Princeton University Press
in English
0691148279 9780691148274
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created July 26, 2011
- 8 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
December 20, 2022 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
October 15, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
October 9, 2020 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
September 25, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
July 26, 2011 | Created by LC Bot | Imported from Library of Congress MARC record. |