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Title: The Shaping of American Higher Education : Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System by Arthur M. Cohen ISBN: 0-7879-1029-5 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 23 October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: covers everything, clear writing.
Comment: Mr. UCLA (the reviewer who gave the book 1 star) was probably a student of the writer, who is a teacher in UCLA. He didn't seem to enjoy his class too much.
Anyway, I bought the book because I was working on my so-called "education reform", but realized that I didn't know anything about education. The book helped out a lot. It writes about the full history of American Higher education with an emphasis on later eras. Colonial, Emergent nattion, university transformation, mass higher education, and contemporary are the five stage of Higher Education's development. He wrote about the major trends and characteristics of each era, some trends lasting for several eras, like the continuous expansion of the system, never ending diversification, and constant cries for access. One chapter is for one era, and all chapters are subdivided into eight sections to fully illustrate the details of each generation: societal context, institutions, students, faculty, curriculum and instruction, governance and administration, finance, and research and outcomes. The book is very well researched, and has a tremendous amount of data and charts, which were put together very nicely by the author. But that does not mean the book is boring! Though for most of the parts the author tried to be impartial, there were still many spalkling moments when you could feel the author's passion beaming out from the pages, especially as the book go into more modern eras. I know so much more about the history of US education now, and this whole process of developments is very amazing. With this understanding of history, I also gained a far better good grip on current issues, issues not only relating to higher education, but education as a whole. Don't hesitate, you will learn much!
Rating: 5
Summary: This is an excellent book!
Comment: This book provides an insightful and thorough account of the history of higher education.
Rating: 2
Summary: Useful content, poorly written.
Comment: If you're into a stream of interesting facts, get this book. If, instead, you want something pleasurable to read -- try elsewhere.
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Title: American Higher Education: A History by Christopher J. Lucas ISBN: 0312129459 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Responsive University: Restructuring for High Performance by William G. Tierney ISBN: 0801862604 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A University for the 21st Century by James J. Duderstadt ISBN: 0472110918 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political, and Economic Challenges by Philip G. Altbach, Robert Oliver Berdahl, Patricia J. Gumport ISBN: 0801858895 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: American College and University: A History by Frederick Rudolph ISBN: 0820312843 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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