Description
Book SynopsisWilson Smith and Thomas Bender have assembled an essential reference for policymakers, administrators, and all those interested in the history and sociology of higher education.
Trade ReviewA thoughtfully produced, thought-provoking resource that will be of interest to anyone concerned with policy and administration in American higher education. Book News 2008 Wilson Smith and Thomas Bender offer a judicious selection of documents that highlight important transitions, ideas, and episodes from the last six decades of higher learning in the United States. Harvard Educational Review 2008 Wilson Smith and Thomas Bender's documentary history will undoubtedly serve as an extremely valuable enchiridion of a transformative period in American higher education. -- Benjamin A. Johnson and Bruce A. Kimball Journal of Higher Education 2011
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Part I. The Terrain
The Harvard Reprt on General Education
Science
Faith and Modernity
The Newman Report
The Humanities
The Multiversity
Connecting
Primacy of American Higher Education
Horizons
Part II. Expanding and Reshaping
Truman Commission Report
The Challenge of Expansion
The Origin of Admissions Testing
California's Master Plan
Community Colleges
Diversification of Higher Education: Women
Diversification of Higher Education: Latino Americans
Lifelong Learning
The Soul of the University
Part III. Liberal Arts
Retrospect and Prospect
The Humanities in Wartimes
Revising the Curricula
The Mind of the University
Teaching the Connection
The Arts and Sciences in Decline
Part IV. Graduate Studies
Graduate Surveys and Prospects
Imporving the Status of Acadmeic Women
Consequences of Democratization
Rethinking the Ph.D.
Future Faculty
Part V. Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity
The Work of Disciplines
Area Studies
Black Studies
Women's Studies
Interdisciplinarity
Part VI. Academic Profession
The Intellectual Migration
At Work in the Academy
Working in Univerisities/Working in Business
Teachers as Labor and Management
Protocols and Ethics
Part VII. Conflicts on and Beyond Campus
What Should the University Do?
Campus Free Speech
A Learning Community
The Franklin Affair
Inquiries
Academic Commitment in Crisis Time
Part VIII. Government, Foundations, Corporations
Government
Foundations
Corporations
Part IX. The Coutrs and Equal Educational Opportunity
Toward Racial Equality
Affirmative Action
Affirmative Action Attacked
Part X. Academic Freedom
Setting the Standard
Coices of the Supreme Court
Voices from Professors
Part XI. Rights of Students
Directed by the Court and the Congress
Part XII. Academic Administrations
Management
Presidents Consider Their Jobs
Ruth Simmons Comes to Smith College
Greatness Retold
