For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America
For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America
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Abstract
Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? What, exactly, is higher education good for? This book 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 university—in states from California to Maine—the book engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation's founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good? Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, the book 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 tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the book, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. The book demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities—including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions—and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.
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Front Matter
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Prologue
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The Early National Period
Charles Dorn- 1 “Literary Institutions are Founded and Endowed for the Common Good”: The Liberal Professions in New England
- 2 “The Good Order and the Harmony of the Whole Community”: Public Higher Learning in the South
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“To Promote More Effectually the Grand Interests of Society”: Catholic Higher Education in the Mid-Atlantic
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The Antebellum and Civil War Eras
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Reconstruction Through the Second World War
Charles Dorn- 6 “To Qualify its Students for Personal Success”: The Rise of the University in the West
- 7 “This is to be Our Profession—To Serve the World”: Women’s Higher Education in New England
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“The Burden of his Ambition is to Achieve a Distinguished Career”: African American Higher Education in the Mid-Atlantic
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The Cold War Through the Twenty-First Century
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