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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2017
- Book Title
- For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in Amer...
- ISBN
- 9780801452345
- Subject Area
- Education, History
- Publication Name
- For the Common Good : a New History of Higher Education in America
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- United States / 20th Century, Higher, History
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Series
- American Institutions and Society Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 32.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 324 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801452341
ISBN-13
9780801452345
eBay Product ID (ePID)
236651554
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
324 Pages
Publication Name
For the Common Good : a New History of Higher Education in America
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Subject
United States / 20th Century, Higher, History
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education, History
Series
American Institutions and Society Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-052777
Reviews
For the Common Good makes a strong contribution to the scholarship on American higher education through its close analysis of how the concept of civic-mindedness has continued to play out at so many different types of institutions in many different times and places. For the Common Good will make you think about both the historic and present role of higher education in the United States, and that is high praise., Charles Dorn has written an excellent historical overview of American higher education that diverges from other histories of the institution in several advantageous ways. Dorn's book is a gift to us. It is a model for combining analytical breadth and complexity and of using the particular to illuminate the general. It is now the best single-volume history of American higher education available., In this engaging look at a remarkable breadth of institutions, Charles Dorn offers compelling new insights into more than two centuries of higher education as well as reassurance that the common-good ethos will survive the current wave of corporatization and consumerism., Charles Dorn has written an excellent historical overview of American higher education that diverges from other histories of the institution in several advantageous ways., In For the Common Good , Charles Dorn demonstrates a rare recognition of how students' own choices impacted--and sometimes shifted--the declared missions of colleges and universities over time., In teasing out the emergence of different social ethoses within higher education over time, Dorn has produced a book that offers insightful analysis on the past and important perspective to the present., Charles Dorn offers productive insights into the ways that higher education institutions in the United States have maintained their commitment to advancing the common good over time, even with profound social, political, and economic societal changes., Charles Dorn knows a great deal about higher educationand For the Common Good covers excellent topics., "Charles Dorn knows a great deal about higher education, and For the Common Good covers excellent topics."―Joseph F. Kett, James Madison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Virginia, author of Merit: The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century, Charles Dorn knows a great deal about higher education, and For the Common Good covers excellent topics., For the Common Good makes a strong contribution to the scholarship on American higher education through its close analysis of how the concept of civic-mindedness has continued to play out at so many different types of institutions in many different times and places. For the Common Good will make you think about both the historic and present role of higher education in the United States, and that is high praise., Charles Dorn's refreshing analysis is persuasive in showing that higher education for the common good is both central and complex for American colleges and universities in the past, present, and future. Best of all, his book shows how historical research can be readable and pertinent to our policy discussions today.
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
378.73
Table Of Content
The Early National Period 1. "Literary Institutions Are Founded and Endowed for the Common Good" The Liberal Professions in New England 2. "The Good Order and the Harmony of the Whole Community" Public Higher Learning in the South 3. "To Promote More Effectually the Grand Interests of Society" Catholic Higher Education in the Mid-Atlantic The Antebellum and Civil War Eras 4. "To Spread Throughout the Land, an Army of Practical Men" Agriculture and Mechanics in the Midwest 5. "The Instruction Necessary to the Practical Duties of the Profession" Teacher Education in the West Reconstruction through the Second World War 6. "To Qualify Its Students for Personal Success" The Rise of the University in the West 7. "This Is to Be Our Profession--To Serve the World" Women's Higher Education in New England 8. "The Burden of His Ambition Is to Achieve a Distinguished Career" African American Higher Education in the Mid-Atlantic The Cold War through the Twenty-First Century 9. "A Wedding Ceremony between Industry and the University" The Urban University in the Southeast 10. "To Meet the Training and Retraining Needs of Established Business" Community Colleges in the Northeast and Southwest Epilogue
Synopsis
Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for? In For the Common Good , Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research university--in states from California to Maine--Dorn engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation's founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good? Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education's dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the book, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. For the Common Good demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities--including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions--and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways., Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for? In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research university--in states from California to Maine--Dorn engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation's founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good? Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education's dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the book, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. For the Common Good demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities--including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions--and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways., Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for? In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries of college and university history. From the community college to the elite research university?in states from California to Maine?Dorn engages a fundamental question confronted by higher education institutions ever since the nation's founding: Do colleges and universities contribute to the common good? Tracking changes in the prevailing social ethos between the late eighteenth and early twenty-first centuries, Dorn illustrates the ways in which civic-mindedness, practicality, commercialism, and affluence influenced higher education's dedication to the public good. Each ethos, long a part of American history and tradition, came to predominate over the others during one of the four chronological periods examined in the book, informing the character of institutional debates and telling the definitive story of its time. For the Common Good demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities?including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions?and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways., Are colleges and universities in a period of unprecedented disruption? Is a bachelor's degree still worth the investment? Are the humanities coming to an end? What, exactly, is higher education good for?In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn challenges the rhetoric of America's so-called crisis in higher education by investigating two centuries...
LC Classification Number
LA226.D67 2017
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