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The Resource Between citizens and the state : the politics of American higher education in the 20th century, Christopher P. Loss, (electronic book)

Between citizens and the state : the politics of American higher education in the 20th century, Christopher P. Loss, (electronic book)

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"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"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xiii, 320 p.
Contents
  • pt. 1. Bureaucracy
  • pt. 2. Democracy
  • pt. 3. Diversity
Isbn
9781400840052
Instance
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Between citizens and the state : the politics of American higher education in the 20th century
Title
Between citizens and the state
Title remainder
the politics of American higher education in the 20th century
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Christopher P. Loss
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"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"--
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Loss, Christopher P
Dewey number
379.1/2140973
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
LC173
LC item number
.L67 2012
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
Politics and society in twentieth-century America
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Higher education and state
  • Federal aid to higher education
  • Education, Higher
  • Education, Higher
  • Education, Higher
  • Education, Higher
  • Education, Higher
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Between citizens and the state : the politics of American higher education in the 20th century, Christopher P. Loss, (electronic book)
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Color
multicolored
Contents
pt. 1. Bureaucracy -- pt. 2. Democracy -- pt. 3. Diversity
Control code
EBC802235
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
xiii, 320 p.
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
Isbn
9781400840052
Other physical details
ill.
Reproduction note
Electronic resource.
Specific material designation
remote
Label
Between citizens and the state : the politics of American higher education in the 20th century, Christopher P. Loss, (electronic book)
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Color
multicolored
Contents
pt. 1. Bureaucracy -- pt. 2. Democracy -- pt. 3. Diversity
Control code
EBC802235
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
xiii, 320 p.
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
Isbn
9781400840052
Other physical details
ill.
Reproduction note
Electronic resource.
Specific material designation
remote

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