An accidental triumph: the improbable history of American higher education
"Hardly a day passes without reference to some scandal, fraud, intellectual or moral failure, or other ill associated with American academic institutions," writes Sol Gittleman in his bracing new book, An Accidental Triumph. "If American higher education is such a failure, why are stu...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Hardly a day passes without reference to some scandal, fraud, intellectual or moral failure, or other ill associated with American academic institutions," writes Sol Gittleman in his bracing new book, An Accidental Triumph. "If American higher education is such a failure, why are students and scholars from all over the world still so eager to secure a place in one of these institutions? Is American higher education a disaster or the envy of the world?" Gittleman confronts this contradiction in this dynamic mix of history, analysis, and personal reflection. An Accidental Triumph tells the engaging story of how American higher education evolved from a patchwork of seminaries in the early nineteenth century into the world’s leader in research by the middle of the twentieth. Gittleman links this fascinating story to his own fifty-year academic career, which coincided with an explosive rise in enrollment, spurred by the GI Bill, and an unparalleled postwar boom in faculty hiring, prompted by massive new federal support for academic research from organizations such as the National Science Foundation. Writing with authority, frankness, and unfailing wry good humor, Gittleman surveys the triumphs, tragedies, and tensions of the history of American higher education. Despite the relentless criticism, Gittleman finds good reason to remain optimistic about the future of teaching and research at the college and university level in the United States |
| Beschreibung: | 189 Seiten 21 cm |
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