{"product_id":"the-conditions-for-admission-9780804755580","title":"The Conditions for Admission","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first comprehensive study of the admission policies and practices at U.S. public universities, examining their \"social contract\" in light of contemporary debates over affirmative action, standardized testing, privatization, and the influences of globalization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Douglass] confronts feel-good terms like 'disadvantaged' and 'underrepresented' that defy precise definition... The point of the book is that our popular belief in the social contract that America has with its colleges, that such institutions exist for the public good, is imperiled by dwindling government support.\" -- \u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Conditions for Admission\u003c\/i\u003e expands our understanding of America's pioneering breed of public universities and confronts the real and often ignored differences between public and independent universities. The author notes that the United States is arguably no longer preeminent in its effort to build a high access and high quality network of colleges and universities—a lead lost in part by a decline in government investment, but also by the increased demands of a constituent-driven society and by the actions of the institutions themselves.\" -- David Ward, President * American Council on Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"John Aubrey Douglass brilliantly captures the dilemmas facing admissions at public universities in The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity, and the Social Contract of Public Universities Douglass is to be congratulated for crafting a volume on public university admissions that complements the current flourish of publications on the private sector. There are other new books that range beyond the elite sector, but Douglass's treatment of public universities is unsurpassed.\" - John A. Soares, review in Academe, and author of The Power of Privilege: Yale and America's Elite Colleges\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Conditions for Admission\u003c\/i\u003e economically covers the development of early access policies at the university and devotes majority of its pages to a discussion of modern admissions controversies occurring between UC's 'Master Plan' of 1960 and the present day. The book is lean, engaging, and judiciously supported by documents from UC archives... [The] tension between academic leadership and the volatile political sphere may have forged (and may continue to forge) the social contract celebrated by Douglass's excellent new book.\" -- \u003ci\u003eHistory of Education Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"an insightful and novel discussion of the movement toward privatization of public institutions, and the resulting abatement of the social contract. Douglass's analysis of the future of public education is a worthwhile read for anyone with a stake in public education... a thought-provoking analysis of the future of U.S. public education.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of the National Academic Advising Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"John Aubrey Douglass's \u003ci\u003eThe Conditions for Admission\u003c\/i\u003e connects past and present in the enduring policy debates about who goes to college and where. Admissions and access, whether from the point of view of system planners or parents and their children, provides the focus for putting the complex experience at the heart of serious analysis of American educational institutions and society.\" -- John Thelin * The University of Kentucky *\u003cbr\u003e\"California has been in the eye of the storm regarding university admissions, access, and affirmative action. John Douglass has been studying these issues for years and his new book provides a penetrating analysis of how changing access to the University of California has altered the historic social contract between higher education and the state. It should be read by everyone concerned about the question of equity and access to higher education in America.\" -- Robert Berdahl * President Association of American Universities *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  List of Figures and Tables\t000  Preface\t000  Part I\tBuilding a Public University and Creating the Social Contract\t000  Chapter 1  The Public University Movement and California\t000  Chapter 2  Building a Higher Education System and Broadening Access\t000  Chapter 3  Inclusion, Exclusion, and the Issue of Race\t000  Part II\tThe Managerial University and the Post\\-World War II Era\t000  Chapter 4  The Master Plan, the SAT, and Managing Demand\t000  Chapter 5  Countervailing Forces: Standardized Testing and Affirmative Action\t000  Chapter 6  For Every Action a Reaction: Race, Bakke, and the Social Contract Revisited\t000  Part III\tModern Battles over Equity, Affirmative Action, and Testing\t000  Chapter 7  California's Affirmative-Action Fight\t000  Chapter 8  The First Aftermath: Outreach and Comprehensive Review\t000  Chapter 9  The Second Aftermath: President Atkinson Versus the SAT\t000  Part IV\tWhither the Social Contract? The Postmodern World and the Primacy of   Higher Education\t000  Chapter 10  Perils and Opportunities: Autonomy, Merit, and Privatization\t000  Chapter 11  The Waning of America's Higher Education Advantage\t000  Notes  Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405567992151,"sku":"9780804755580","price":81.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804755580.jpg?v=1730492864","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-conditions-for-admission-9780804755580","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}