Higher education for all :: racial inequality, Cold War liberalism, and the California Master Plan /

"In the late 1950s, California embarked on an ambitious attempt to provide free public higher education to all high school graduates. This massive expansion of higher education in what would soon be the nation's most populous state coincided with the arrival of the counterculture on campus...

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1. Verfasser: Higgins, Andrew Stone (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
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Zusammenfassung:"In the late 1950s, California embarked on an ambitious attempt to provide free public higher education to all high school graduates. This massive expansion of higher education in what would soon be the nation's most populous state coincided with the arrival of the counterculture on campus, a surge of organizing around ethnic studies and affirmative action programs, and the rise of the New Right, with Ronald Reagan as governor. As Andrew Stone Higgins details, this collision was no coincidence-the tension between the democratic promise of the California Master Plan for Education and the structural injustices it inadvertently reinforced ended up catalyzing the tumultuous politics of the 1960s, including both progressive campus movements and conservative backlash"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 283 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1469672936
9781469672939
1469672928
9781469672922

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