Between Citizens and the State (eBook)

The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century

Christopher P. Loss (Autor)

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2011
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4005-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Christopher P. Loss is assistant professor of public policy and higher education at Vanderbilt University.

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2011
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Zusatzinfo: 29 halftones. 4 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1920s • 1930s • 1940s • 1944 G.I. Bill • 1950s • 1958 National Defense Education Act • 1960s • 1965 Higher Education Act • 1970s • academic freedom • Academic tenure • activism • Adult Education • Affirmative Action • African Americans • American Council on Education • American higher education • American Psychological Association • americans • American state • Anticommunism • Army Information and Education Division • Army University • Black Power • bureaucratic state • Citizenship • citizen-soldiers • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Classroom • Cold War • Columbia University • Committee on Public Information • Cornell University • Cost of attendance • credential • Criticism • Curriculum • Democratic Citizenship • Diversity • doctorate • dormitory • Economic Development • Economic Security • economist • educated citizenship • Education • Education Act • educational program • Educational Television • Education Policy • Emotional Health • Employment • Ethnic Studies • Federal Government • Feminist Movement • financial concerns • Fraternities and sororities • Fulbright program • Funding • G.I. Bill • Grading (education) • Graduate school • Grassroots • Great Depression • Great Society • Harvard University • Hierarchical organizations • higher education • Higher Education Act 1965 • Historically Black Colleges and Universities • Identity • ideological differences • In Loco Parentis • Institution • International Relations • junior college • land-grant colleges • LAND GRANTS • land-grant universities • land-grant university • learning • Lecture • Legislation • Lyndon B. Johnson • marginalized groups • middle class • Military Service • Morrill Land-Grant Acts • national leaders • national security • National Youth Administration • New Deal • New Deal state • of education • parastate • personal adjustment • Policy • political apathy • Political History • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Princeton University Press • Privatization • Profession • Psychiatrist • psychologist • Psychology • Public institution (United States) • Public Opinion • Public Opinion Polls • Public Policy • Public university • Racism • rights • rights revolution • Ronald Reagan • Slavery • Social History • Social Science • Sociology • soldier education • Studebaker • Student • student-citizens • Student group • student loan • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • Students' union • Student well-being • Tax • Teacher • Teach-In • The New York Times • Tuition payments • Twentieth century • undergraduate education • Unemployment • UNESCO • United States • University of Chicago • U.S. Army • Voting • war • war effort • War on Poverty • Welfare State • World War I • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4005-8 / 1400840058
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4005-2 / 9781400840052