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This essential history of American higher education addresses key issues which have often been condemned to exceptions and footnotes-if not ignored completely-in historical considerations of U.S. higher education: particularly race, ethnicity, gender, and class.
List of contents
1. Introduction: History as Inquiry 2. From the Beginning: Citizenship and Leadership, Exclusion, and Stratification in the Colonizing Colleges and the Early Republic 3. A Century of Destiny Built on Developing Traditions: Higher Education Expands 4. The Progressive Era and Its Enduring Impact on Higher Education: Efficient, Rational Solutions to Moral and Social Problems 5. War: Meanings of Patriotism in Higher Education 6. Sex and Love! Beer! Football! And Other Important Student Activities 7. The Research University, Revised 8. From the Colonial Colleges to the Colleges and Universities of Today: Processes of Exclusion and Social Stratification 9. An Epilogue on This History of U.S. Higher Education: Historical Dimensions of Meritocracy
About the author
Philo A. Hutcheson is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Alabama.
Summary
This essential history of American higher education addresses key issues which have often been condemned to exceptions and footnotes—if not ignored completely—in historical considerations of U.S. higher education: particularly race, ethnicity, gender, and class.
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Philo Hutcheson does not offer yet another account of higher education in the U.S. that focuses primarily on elite institutions, leaders, and students in which stories about their diversity are sprinkled like a final pinch of seasoning. Instead, in A People's History of American Higher Education, he radically reconceives this history by centering his attention on a beautifully diverse range of historical players and revealing their fundamental importance. I am eager to bring Hutcheson's thematically-driven, compelling, and witty account to the students in my history of higher education classes.
-Jackie Blount, Professor, Department of Educational Studies, The Ohio State University
