History of Higher Education Annual

Informationen zum Autor Torcuato Di Tella Klappentext History of Higher Education Annual! Volume 23 provides insight into the struggle for civil rights and desegregation of Southern higher education! illuminating how this conflict affected private! historically black colleges and white denominational colleges! while interpreting the dynamics of segregation and desegregation in South Carolina. Other contributions examine town-gown relations for Harvard students in the eighteenth century and the challenge of creating an urban public university in Chicago. Review essays examine the demographic and cultural transformation of British higher education and the curious phenomenon of historical encyclopedias of individual colleges and universities. Zusammenfassung History of Higher Education Annual, Volume 23 provides insight into the struggle for civil rights and desegregation of Southern higher education, illuminating how this conflict affected private, historically black colleges and white denominational colleges, while interpreting the dynamics of segregation and desegregation in South Carolina Inhaltsverzeichnis Higher Education and Civil Rights: South Carolina, 1860s–1960s, In Pursuit of Excellence: Desegregation and Southern Baptist Politics at Furman University, “Quacks, Quirks, Agitators, and Communists”: Private Black Colleges and the Limits of Institutional Autonomy, Collegiate Living and Cambridge Justice: Regulating the Colonial Harvard Student Community in the Eighteenth Century, Envisioning an Urban University: President David Henry and the Chicago Circle Campus of the University of Illinois, 1955–1975, REVIEW ESSAYS, Selected Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education, Contributors

Product details

• Authors: Torcuato Di Tella, Roger L. Geiger
• Assisted by: Roger L. Geiger (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2004
• EAN: 9780765808394
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0839-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Perspectives on the History of; History of Higher Education Annual; History of Higher Education Annual
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; USA, History: specific events & topics, HISTORY / General, United States of America, USA, History: specific events and topics, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher