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Between citizens and the state [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of American higher education in the 20th century / / Christopher P. Loss



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Autore: Loss Christopher P Visualizza persona
Titolo: Between citizens and the state [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of American higher education in the 20th century / / Christopher P. Loss Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012
Edizione: Core Textbook
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 p.)
Disciplina: 379.1/2140973
Soggetto topico: Higher education and state - United States
Federal aid to higher education - United States
Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States
Education, Higher - Political aspects - United States
Education, Higher - Social aspects - United States
Education, Higher - Economic aspects - United States
Education, Higher - United States - History
Soggetto non controllato: 1920s
1930s
1940s
1944 G.I. Bill
1950s
1958 National Defense Education Act
1960s
1965 Higher Education Act
1970s
American higher education
American state
Army Information and Education Division
Cold War
G.I. Bill
Great Depression
Higher Education Act 1965
New Deal state
New Deal
U.S. Army
World War I.
World War II
anticommunism
bureaucratic state
citizen-soldiers
democratic citizenship
diversity
economic security
educated citizenship
emotional health
federal government
financial concerns
hierarchical organizations
higher education
identity
ideological differences
land grants
land-grant colleges
land-grant universities
marginalized groups
national leaders
national security
parastate
personal adjustment
political apathy
political history
privatization
psychology
public opinion polls
public opinion
rights revolution
social history
soldier education
student well-being
student-citizens
twentieth century
Classificazione: HIS036060EDU016000EDU015000
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Bureaucracy -- pt. 2. Democracy -- pt. 3. Diversity.
Sommario/riassunto: "This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state. Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy education to ready citizens for the national, bureaucratized, and increasingly global world in which they lived. Loss details the myriad ways in which academic leaders and students shaped, and were shaped by, the state's shifting political agenda as it moved from a preoccupation with economic security during the Great Depression, to national security during World War II and the Cold War, to securing the rights of African Americans, women, and other previously marginalized groups during the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, Loss reappraises the origins of higher education's current-day diversity regime, the growth of identity group politics, and the privatization of citizenship at the close of the twentieth century. At a time when people's faith in government and higher education is being sorely tested, this book sheds new light on the close relations between American higher education and politics"--
Titolo autorizzato: Between citizens and the state  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-33979-X
9786613339799
1-4008-4005-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781573803321
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Serie: Politics and society in twentieth-century America.