{"product_id":"for-the-common-good-9781501768231","title":"For the Common Good","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAre colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor''s degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFor the Common Good,\u003c\/i\u003e Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America''s so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research universityin states from California to MaineDorn engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation''s founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education''s dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and trad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn teasing out the emergence of different social ethoses within higher education over time, Dorn has produced a book that offers insightful analysis on the past and important perspective to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e * History of Education Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Dorn has written an excellent historical overview of American higher education that diverges from other histories of the institution in several advantageous ways. Dorn's book is a gift to us. It is a model for combining analytical breadth and complexity and of using the particular to illuminate the general. It is now the best single-volume history of American higher education available.\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor the Common Good\u003c\/i\u003e makes a strong contribution to the scholarship on American higher education through its close analysis of how the concept of civic-mindedness has continued to play out at so many different types of institutions in many different times and places. \u003ci\u003eFor the Common Good\u003c\/i\u003e will make you think about both the historic and present role of higher education in the United States, and that is high praise.\u003c\/p\u003e * New England Quarterly *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409369440599,"sku":"9781501768231","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501768231.jpg?v=1730506565","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/for-the-common-good-9781501768231","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}