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072 7 _aEDU016000
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082 0 4 _a378.73
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDorn, Charles
_eautore
245 1 0 _aFor the Common Good :
_bA New History of Higher Education in America /
_cCharles Dorn.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a1 online resource (324 p.) :
_b11 b&w photos
336 _atext
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490 0 _aAmerican Institutions and Society
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tPrologue --
_tTHE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD --
_t1. “Literary Institutions Are Founded and Endowed for the Common Good” --
_t2. “The Good Order and the Harmony of the Whole Community” --
_t3. “To Promote More Effectually the Grand Interests of Society” --
_tTHE ANTEBELLUM AND CIVIL WAR ERAS --
_t4. “To Spread Throughout the Land, an Army of Practical Men” --
_t5. “The Instruction Necessary to the Practical Duties of the Profession” --
_tRECONSTRUCTION THROUGH THE SECOND WORLD WAR --
_t6. “To Qualify Its Students for Personal Success” --
_t7. “This Is to Be Our Profession—To Serve the World” --
_t8. “The Burden of His Ambition Is to Achieve a Distinguished Career” --
_tTHE COLD WAR THROUGH THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY --
_t9. “A Wedding Ceremony between Industry and the University” --
_t10. “To Meet the Training and Retraining Needs of Established Business” --
_tEpilogue --
_tNotes --
_tSelected Bibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aAre 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aEducation, Higher
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aUniversities and colleges
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 4 _aEducation & History Of Education.
650 4 _aU.S. History.
650 7 _aEDUCATION / History.
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653 _ahigher education, colleges and the common good, higher education policy, history of universities, ethics and academia, American higher education, universities and public service, American universities, history of education.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501712616
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