Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education by John R. Theli

Description: Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education by John R. Thelin What emerges is a complex and nuanced collection that reflects the richness of more than three centuries of American higher education. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The thoroughly updated second edition of this dynamic and thoughtful collection focuses on the issues that have shaped American higher education in the past decade.Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education, designed to be used alongside John R. Thelins A History of American Higher Education or on its own, presents a rich collection of primary sources that chart the social, intellectual, political, and cultural history of American colleges and universities from the seventeenth century to the present. The documents are organized in sections that parallel the chapters in A History both chronologically and thematically, and sections are introduced with brief headnotes establishing the context for each source.This updated edition of Essential Documents focuses on the issues that have shaped American higher education in the past decade, from congressional investigations into endowments and court cases about paying student-athletes to accounts of campus protests over racial discrimination and adjuncts struggling in the "gig economy." From the successful fund-raising campaigns of 2014 to the closing of campuses because of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the book also includes• a new tenth chapter, "Prominence and Problems: American Higher Education since 2010," and an updated introduction;• a number of landmark documents, including the charter for the College of Rhode Island (1764), the Morrill Land Grand Act (1862), the GI Bill (1944), and the Knight Commission Report on College Sports (2010); and • lively firsthand accounts by students and teachers that tell what it was like to be a Harvard student in the 1700s, to participate in the campus riots of the 1960s, to be a female college athlete in the 1970s, or to enroll at UCLA as an economically disadvantaged Latina in the 1990s.Thelin even stretches the usual bounds of documentary sources, incorporating popular pieces by Robert Benchley and James Thurber on their own college days as well as an excerpt from Groucho Marxs screwball film Horse Feathers. What emerges is a complex and nuanced collection that reflects the richness of more than three centuries of American higher education. Author Biography John R. Thelin is a University Research Professor in the Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation Department at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of A History of American Higher Education and Going to College in the Sixties. Table of Contents Acknowledgments for First Edition Acknowledgments for Second EditionIntroduction to First EditionIntroduction to Second Edition1. Colleges in the Colonial Era1.1. Town and Gown: Anthony Woods "Riot at Oxford" 1.2. A College Charter in the Colonial Era: The College of Rhode Island (1764) 1.3. A Colleges Laws and Code of Conduct1.4. Finances of the Colonial Colleges2. Creating the "American Way" in Higher Education: College Building, 1785 to 1860 2.1. A Charter for a New State University: The University of Georgia Charter (1785) 2.2. Founding State Universities: The Great Bicentennial Debate, 1785 to 1985 2.3. Philanthropy and Student Financial Aid: The American Education Society (1815) 2.4. Higher Education for Women: Charter for Mount-Holyoke Female Seminary (1836) 2.5. College Presidents and Their Students: Thomas R. Dews Address before the Students of the College of William and Mary (1836)3. Diversity of Adversity: Resilience in American Higher Education, 1860 to 1890 3.1. Federal Land Grant Legislation: The Morrill Act of 18623.2. Student Memoir: Lyman C. Baggs Four Years at Yale (1871)3.3. Federal Land Grant Legislation: The Second Morrill Act of 18903.4. Stephen J. Wright on the Historical Background and Future Prospects of Black Colleges and Universities (1987)3.5. College Admissions and Student Consumerism: "The Oldest and Cheapest College in the South" (1892)4. Captains of Industry and Erudition: University Builders, 1880 to 19104.1. Edwin Slosson on Great American Universities in 19104.2. Reforming Medical Education: Abraham Flexners 1910 Report for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching4.3. A College Professors Wife (1905)4.4. Jesse Brundage Searss Report on Endowed Universities (1922)5. Alma Mater: American Goes to College, 1890 to 19205.1. Student Memoir: Robert Benchleys "What College Did to Me" (1927) 5.2. The Popular Press and Womens Colleges: Smith College in 18975.3. Student Memoir: James Thurbers "University Days" (1933) 5.4. Real Estate Promotion and Colleges: "A College among the Orange Groves" (1920) 5.5. College Sports Reform: Howard J. Savages 1929 Report for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching6. Success and Exces: Expansion and Reforms in Higher Education, 1920 to 1945 6.1. Hollywood and Higher Education: The Marx Brothers Go to College (1932)6.2. Student Memoir: John Kenneth Galbraith on Graduate School at Berkeley in the 1930s (1968)6.3. Federal Student Financial Aid: The GI Bill of 19446.4. The Federal Government and Sponsored Research: Vannevar Bushs 1945 Report, Science: The Endless Frontier6.5. Higher Education for American Democracy: The 1947 Truman Commission Report7. Gilt by Assocation: Higher Educations "Golden Age," 1945 to 19707.1. Coeducation and Student Life: Rules and Regulations for Women in Higher Education in 1955–567.2. The 1960 California Master Plan for Postsecondary Education 7.3. Racial Desegregation at State Universities: Commemorative Plaque at the University of Mississippi7.4. Student Memoir: Jackie Jensen as the "Student-Athlete" following World War II (1970)7.5. Campus Unrest and Student Protest: Mario Savios "Put Your Bodies upon the Gears" Speech at Sproul Plaza, University of California, Berkeley (1964)7.6. Student Memoir: Steven Kelman on Political Activism at Harvard from 1966 to 1970 (1982)8. Coming of Age in America: Higher Education as a Trouble Giant, 1970 to 20008.1. The Campus Condition: The 1971 Newman Report on Higher Education8.2. Federal Student Financial Aid: Basic Educational Opportunity Grants Program (Pell Grants) from the 1972 Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 19658.3. Missions and Functions of Community Colleges: The 1981 Report of the California Postsecondary Education Commission8.4. The Changing Profile of College Students in the 1980s8.5. Student Memoir: Rosa Maria Pegueros, "Todos Vuelven: From Potrero Hill to UCLA" (1995)8.6. College Sports Reform: The 1991 Knight Commission Report9. A New Life Begins? Reconfigured Higher Education in the Twenty-First Centry9.1. College Spending in a Turbulent Decade: Findings from the Delta Cost Project, 2000–20109.2. Curriculum and the Culture of a Campus: A Clash between Students and the President at the University of Chicago (1999)9.3. Faculty Memoir: A Conversation with Professor Laura Nader (2000)9.4. College Sports Reform: The Problems of Presidents and Rising Expenses in the Knight Commission Report of 20109.5. European Expansion of Higher Education: The Bologna Process (1999)9.6. Higher Education: A New Life Begins10. Prominence and Problems: American Higher Education since 201010.1. Philanthropy and Prestige: Stanford University Sets a Record with Its Five-Year Fund-Raising Campaign (2012)10.2. Paying for College: Student Federal Loan Debt Reaches $1.5 Trillion (2019)10.3. The Changing Academic Workforce: Professors in the Gig Economy (2018)10.4. Colleges and Congress: Federal Legislation on Taxing College Endowments (2017)10.5. Campus Monuments and Memorials: Recognizing Race and the Dedication of the Richard T. Greener Statue at the University of South Carolina (2018) 10.6. Commercialism and College Sports on Trial: Intercollegiate Athletics as a Business (2015)10.7. Higher Education and the Courts: The Rise of Purposive Organizations (2013)10.8. Equity and Inclusion: Title IX and Sex Discrimination since 1972 (2015)10.9. Campus Crises: Institutions Respond to the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020CreditsIndex Review For those with an interest in higher education, whether a graduate student, a researcher, or a faculty member, this is a fascinating book . . . The work provides a wealth of useful information that will find regular use in academic libraries. It is highly recommended.-- "American Reference Books Annual"John Thelin is the ideal scholar to create this volume of documents, and not only because his careful scholarship in creating A History has given him a depth that few other senior scholars possess. He is also an acute scholar of archival issues, as is apparent in the introduction to this book and in his short introductions to each of the documents. By commenting on the template of questions he employs in reviewing each document, he demonstrates--and teaches his readers--a thoughtful approach to assessing and analyzing documentary materials. His own writing about those archival issues (cited in the new volume) is a testament to his leadership in helping our field assess its status and the issues surrounding documentation.--Linda EisenmannJohn Thelins taste in making these selections reflects his extraordinary grasp of American higher education.--Sol GittlemanThe history of American higher education has been shaped by a great number and variety of actors and influences, each of which is ably represented and explained in Thelins compendium Essential Documents. The volume is more than a handy reference guide for the librarys or the professors bookshelf; it is a wonderful teaching tool, employing a wide lens, to help develop those studying and writing about the history of American colleges and universities to gain a more complete understanding of these important institutions.--Christian K. AndersonThe primary purpose of this collection is to provide illustrative material for the readers of the textbook, but because of the nature of the documents, the book is of interest in its own right.-- "PsycCRITIQUES" Promotional The thoroughly updated second edition of this dynamic and thoughtful collection focuses on the issues that have shaped American higher education in the past decade. Long Description Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education, designed to be used alongside John R. Thelins A History of American Higher Education or on its own, presents a rich collection of primary sources that chart the social, intellectual, political, and cultural history of American colleges and universities from the seventeenth century to the present. The documents are organized in sections that parallel the chapters in A History both chronologically and thematically, and sections are introduced with brief headnotes establishing the context for each source. This updated edition of Essential Documents focuses on the issues that have shaped American higher education in the past decade, from congressional investigations into endowments and court cases about paying student-athletes to accounts of campus protests over racial discrimination and adjuncts struggling in the "gig economy." From the successful fund-raising campaigns of 2014 to the closing of campuses because of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, the book also includes * a new tenth chapter, "Prominence and Problems: American Higher Education since 2010," and an updated introduction; * a number of landmark documents, including the charter for the College of Rhode Island (1764), the Morrill Land Grand Act (1862), the GI Bill (1944), and the Knight Commission Report on College Sports (2010); and * lively firsthand accounts by students and teachers that tell what it was like to be a Harvard student in the 1700s, to participate in the campus riots of the 1960s, to be a female college athlete in the 1970s, or to enroll at UCLA as an economically disadvantaged Latina in the 1990s. Thelin even stretches the usual bounds of documentary sources, incorporating popular pieces by Robert Benchley and James Thurber on their own college days as well as an excerpt from Groucho Marxs screwball film Horse Feathers. What emerges is a complex and nuanced collection that reflects the richness of more than three centuries of American higher education. Review Quote "For those with an interest in higher education, whether a graduate student, a researcher, or a faculty member, this is a fascinating book . . . The work provides a wealth of useful information that will find regular use in academic libraries. It is highly recommended."? American Reference Books Annual , reviewing a previous edition "The primary purpose of this collection is to provide illustrative material for the readers of the textbook, but because of the nature of the documents, the book is of interest in its own right."? PsycCRITIQUES , reviewing a previous edition "John Thelin is the ideal scholar to create this volume of documents, and not only because his careful scholarship in creating A History has given him a depth that few other senior scholars possess. He is also an acute scholar of archival issues, as is apparent in the introduction to this book and in his short introductions to each of the documents. By commenting on the template of questions he employs in reviewing each document, he demonstrates?and teaches his readers?a thoughtful approach to assessing and analyzing documentary materials. His own writing about those archival issues (cited in the new volume) is a testament to his leadership in helping our field assess its status and the issues surrounding documentation."?Linda Eisenmann, Wheaton College, reviewing a previous edition "The history of American higher education has been shaped by a great number and variety of actors and influences, each of which is ably represented and explained in Thelins compendium Essential Documents . The volume is more than a handy reference guide for the librarys or the professors bookshelf; it is a wonderful teaching tool, employing a wide lens, to help develop those studying and writing about the history of American colleges and universities to gain a more complete understanding of these important institutions."?Christian K. Anderson, University of South Carolina, reviewing a previous edition "John Thelins taste in making these selections reflects his extraordinary grasp of American higher education."?Sol Gittleman, Tufts University, reviewing a previous edition Promotional "Headline" The thoroughly updated second edition of this dynamic and thoughtful collection focuses on the issues that have shaped American higher education in the past decade. Details ISBN1421441462 Author John R. Thelin Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1421441462 ISBN-13 9781421441467 DEWEY 378.73 Pages 440 Edition 2nd Format Paperback Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2021-08-31 US Release Date 2021-08-31 UK Release Date 2021-08-31 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Edition Description second edition Publication Date 2021-08-31 Replaces 9781421414225 Alternative 9781421441450 Illustrations 7 Illustrations, black and white Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2021-07-05 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133956171;

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