Ebook Academias Golden Age: Universities in Massachusetts, 1945-1970
Oxford College Press, USA | April 23, 1992 | ISBN-10: 0195054644 | 544 pages | PDF | 32.nine Mb
This ebook examines the evolution of American universities in the course of the a long time subsequent Planet War II. Emphasizing the significance of modify at the campus stage, the ebook combines a common thought of countrywide trends with a close review of eight assorted universities in Massachusetts. The 8 are Harvard, M.I.T., Tufts, Brandeis, Boston University, Boston School, Northeastern and the University of Massachusetts. Broad analytic chapters look at key developments like expansion, the rise of graduate schooling and analysis, the professionalization of the faculty, and the decline of common education. These chapters also evaluation criticisms of academia that arose in the late 1960s and the fate of different reform proposals in the course of the 1970s. Further chapters emphasis on the eight campuses to illustrate the forces that drove various kinds of institutionsresearch universities, school-centered universities, city private universities and public universitiesin responding to the circumstances of the postwar several years.
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