A perfect mess the unlikely ascendancy of American higher education
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press
2017
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
