Description
Book SynopsisThose seriously interested in the emergence of mass higher education, and the debates surrounding it, will appreciate finding many of Trow's groundbreaking works-including three articles never before published-in a single volume.
Trade ReviewHighly instructive. -- Darko Strajn International Review of Education
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Emergence of an Enduring Theme
Chapter 1. The Second Transformation of American Secondary Education
Chapter 2. Problems in the Transition from Elite to Mass Higher Education
Chapter 3. Elite Higher Education: An Endangered Species?
Part II: Causes and Consequences of America's Advantage
Chapter 4. Federalism in American Higher Education
Chapter 5. Class, Race, and Higher Education in America
Part III: Britain as a Contrasting Case
Chapter 6. Academic Standards and Mass Higher Education
Chapter 7. Managerialism and the Academic Profession: The Case of England
Part IV: The Private Lives of American Universities
Chapter 8. The Campus as a Context for Learning: Notes on Education and Architecture
Chapter 9. The American Academic Department as a Context for Learning
Chapter 10. Guests without Hosts: Notes on the Institute for Advanced Study
Chapter 11. New Directions for the Center for Studies in Higher Education: The 1977–78 Annual Report
Part V: Governance and Reform of the American University
Chapter 12. Leadership and Organization: The Case of Biology at Berkeley
Chapter 13. Comparative Reflections on Leadership in Higher Education
Chapter 14. Governance in the University of California: The Transformation of Politics into Administration
Chapter 15. California after Racial Preferences
Part VI: The Completion of the Transformation
Chapter 16. From Mass Higher Education to Universal Access: The American Advantage
Chapter 17. Reflections on the Transition from Elite to Mass to Universal Access: Forms and Phases of Higher Education in Modern Societies since World War II
Contributors
About the Author
Index
