Author: Roger L. Geiger
Publisher: Transaction Pub
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781412805483
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781412825221
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John R. Thelin
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 555
ISBN-13: 1421428849
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive history of American higher education—now up to date. Colleges and universities are among the most cherished—and controversial—institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in American life. Exploring American higher education from its founding in the seventeenth century to its struggle to innovate and adapt in the first decades of the twenty-first century, Thelin demonstrates that the experience of going to college has been central to American life for generations of students and their families. Drawing from archival research, along with the pioneering scholarship of leading historians, Thelin raises profound questions about what colleges are—and what they should be. Covering issues of social class, race, gender, and ethnicity in each era and chapter, this new edition showcases a fresh concluding chapter that focuses on both the opportunities and problems American higher education has faced since 2010. The essay on sources has been revised to incorporate books and articles published over the past decade. The book also updates the discussion of perennial hot-button issues such as big-time sports programs, online learning, the debt crisis, the adjunct crisis, and the return of the culture wars and addresses current areas of contention, including the changing role of governing boards and the financial challenges posed by the economic downturn. 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 of America's institutions of higher learning.
Author: Roger L. Geiger
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781412825382
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Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-03-02
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1000677400
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of articles and review essays from the year 2000 that make up Volume 20 of the annual publication by The Pennsylvania State University.
Author: Roger L. Geiger
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781412825238
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Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781412825276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roger L. Geiger
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2011-12-31
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1412809207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →History of Higher Education Annual, Volume 23 provides insight into the struggle for civil rights and desegregation of Southern higher education, illuminating how this conflict affected private, historically black colleges and white denominational colleges, while interpreting the dynamics of segregation and desegregation in South Carolina. Other contributions examine town-gown relations for Harvard students in the eighteenth century and the challenge of creating an urban public university in Chicago. Review essays examine the demographic and cultural transformation of British higher education and the curious phenomenon of historical encyclopedias of individual colleges and universities. History of Higher Education Annual will be of interest to historians, sociologists, educational policymakers as well as those concerned with the future of higher education in the United States and throughout the world. Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at the Pennsylvania State University. He has edited the History of Higher Education Annual since 1993. His two volumes Research and Relevant Knowledge and To Advance Knowledge (both published by Transaction) cover the history of universities in the United States during the twentieth century.