Full Description
After World War II, returning veterans with GI Bill benefits ushered in an era of unprecedented growth that fundamentally altered the meaning, purpose, and structure of higher education. This volume explores the multifaceted and tumultuous transformation of American higher education that occurred between 1945 and 1970, while examining the changes in institutional forms, curricula, clientele, faculty, and governance. A wide range of well-known contributors cover topics such as the first public university to explicitly serve an urban population, the creation of modern day honors programs, how teachers' colleges were repurposed as state colleges, the origins of faculty unionism and collective bargaining, and the dramatic student protests that forever changed higher education. This engaging text explores a critical moment in the history of higher education, signaling a shift in the meaning of a college education, the concept of who should and who could obtain access to college, and what should be taught.
Contents
Contents
Preface
Introduction: American Higher Education in the Postwar Era,
1945-1970
Roger L. Geiger
The Surprising History of the Post-WWII State Teachers College
W. Bruce Leslie and Kenneth P. O'Brien
Education for Citizenship... Is Too Important to Leave to Chance":
John Allen and the University of South Florida, 1956-1970
Charles Dorn
The Reinvention of honors programs in American Higher Education,
1955-1965
Julianna K. Chaszar
Collective Bargaining and College Faculty: Illinois in the 1960s
Timothy Reese Cain
Brave Sons and Daughters True: 1960s Protests at "The Fundamentalist Harvard"
Adam Laats
The Student Protest Movement in the 1968 Era in 3 Acts: Inception, Confrontations, and Legacies
Roger L. Geiger
List of Contributors
