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Record Nr.

UNINA9910153564403321

Autore

Marginson Simon <1951->

Titolo

The Dream Is Over : The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education / / Simon Marginson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of California Press, 2016

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-520-96620-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) : illustrations

Collana

The Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society ; ; 4

Disciplina

378.794

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Philosophy

Higher education and state - United States

Public universities and colleges - California

Education, Higher - California

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- PART ONE. A CITY UPON A HILL: CLARK KERR AND THE CALIFORNIA IDEA OF HIGHER EDUCATION -- 1. An Extraordinary Time -- 2. Clark Kerr -- 3. Clark Kerr and the California Idea -- 4. The Uses of the University -- 5. Martin Trow: Higher Education and Its Growth -- 6. Bob Clark: The Academic Heartland -- 7. Whither the California Idea of Higher Education? -- PART TWO. CROSSING THE WATERS: THE CALIFORNIA IDEA IN THE WORLD -- 8. The Idea Spreads -- 9. Participation without Limit -- 10. The Spread of Science -- 11. The Global Multiversity -- 12. Systems and Stratification -- 13. American Universities in the Global Space -- 14. Enter the Dragon -- 15. Higher Education in China and the United States -- PART THREE. BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME: THE CALIFORNIA IDEA IN A MORE UNEQUAL AMERICA -- 16. Higher Education after Clark Kerr -- 17. The Impossibility of Public Good -- 18. The Impossibility of Taxation -- 19. Economic and Social Inequality -- 20. Unequal Opportunity -- 21. Higher Education and the Economy -- 22. Higher Education and Society -- Epilogue:



After the Dream -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan's equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world's leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and has had great influence in the rapid growth of universities in China and East Asia. Yet remarkably, the political conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated. Universal access is faltering, public tuition is rising, the great research universities are under growing pressure, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags way behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr's vision be renewed?"--Provided by publisher.