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American Higher Education Since World War II: A History

American Higher Education Since World War II: A History

Paperback

Series: William G. Bowen, Book 115

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0691216924
ISBN13: 9780691216928
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 25 2021
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher education

In the decades after World War II, as government and social support surged and enrollments exploded, the role of colleges and universities in American society changed dramatically. Roger Geiger provides an in-depth history of this remarkable transformation, taking readers from the GI Bill and the postwar expansion of higher education to the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, desegregation and coeducation, and the ascendancy of the modern research university. He demonstrates how growth has been the defining feature of modern higher education, but how each generation since the war has pursued it for different reasons. Sweeping in scope and richly insightful, this groundbreaking book provides the context we need to understand the complex issues facing our colleges and universities today, from rising inequality and skyrocketing costs to deficiencies in student preparedness and lax educational standards.

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