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

• Autore: Marginson Simon <1951->
• Pubblicazione: University of California Press, 2016; Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 378.794
• Soggetto topico: Education, Higher - Philosophy; Higher education and state - United States; Public universities and colleges - California; Education, Higher - California
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: 1960s; american higher ed; american history; california; clark kerr; college; education; educational; government; higher education; luminos; political; politics; public research universities; public tuition; public university; research university; tuition costs; tuition; united states; university of california; university system; us history
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Dream Is Over
• ISBN: 0-520-96620-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996328039303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society ; ; 4.