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A History
A masterful history of the postwar transformation of American higher education American higher education is nearly four centuries old. But in the deca...
Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II
This book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II. The aut...
The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940
American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacy of American science. Although they emerged as universities in the late nin...
American Research Universities Since World War II
The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher educat...
Structure, Function, and Change in Eight Countries
The first scholarly treatment of private education outside the United States....
Research Universities and the Paradox of the Marketplace
This book explains how market forces are profoundly affecting finance, undergraduate education, basic research, and participation in regional and nati...
City normal schools and municipal colleges in the upward expansion of higher education for African Americans / Michael Fultz. -- Nooses, sheets, and b...
Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth
This title reveals the ways that economic development has been incorporated into university commitments and makes a strong case for the long-term prom...
The Making of a National Upper Class
This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century. It is a classic study of an American business...
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2000
A collection of articles and review essays from the year 2000 that make up Volume 20 of the annual publication by The Pennsylvania State University....
History of Higher Education Annual, Volume 23 provides insight into the struggle for civil rights and desegregation of Southern higher education, illu...
Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II.
Iconic leaders are those who have become symbols of their institutions. This volume of historical studies portrays a collection of college and univers...
Volume 24, 2005
The early twentieth century witnessed the rise of middle-class mass periodicals that, while offering readers congenial material, also conveyed new dep...
Volume 26 2007
This volume of Perspectives opens with two contrasting perspectives on the purpose of higher education at the dawning of the university age--perspecti...