National Failures and the Condemnation of US Higher Education

Points of Crisis from 1958 to 2024

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

Since the first American colonial colleges, higher education has served the nation as an arbiter of knowledge, conduit of democratic idealism, and producer of leaders, workers, and innovation.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-08-20
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:370 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:187
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031980596

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Allison L. Palmadessa is Chair of the Department of History, Professor of History at Greensboro College, USA. She is the author of American National Identity, Policy Paradigms, and Higher Education: A History of the Relationship between Higher Education and the United States, 1862-2015 (2017, Palgrave Macmillan); Higher Education Divided: National Expectations and the Bifurcation of National Identity, 1946-2016 (2020, Palgrave Macmillan); and Power, Discourse, and the Purpose of Policy in Higher Education: A Genealogical Study of the Higher Education Act (2023, Palgrave MacMillan).

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction : Purpose of the Work.- Chapter 2: The Space Race, National Defense, and Failures in Science.- Chapter 3: Access and Equity: The Charge for Higher Education in the Civil Rights Movement.- Chapter 4: Campus Unrest and Violence.- Chapter 5: Bleak Perspectives: A Nation at Risk.- Chapter 6: Breaking the Cycle: Economic Struggles and Financing Higher Education.- Chapter 7: Uncle Sam Knows Best: Higher Education in a Neoliberal State.- Chapter 8: Anti-intellectualism in a Divided Nation.- Chapter 9: The Future of Higher Education in American Democracy.