The California idea and American higher education : 1850 to the 1960 master plan / John Aubrey Douglass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Douglass, John Aubrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--California--History.

Education, Higher.

Higher education and state--California--History.

Higher education and state.

History.

California.

Education, Higher--California--History--19th century.

Education, Higher--California--History--20th century.

Local Subjects:

Education, Higher--California--History--19th century.

Education, Higher--California--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 460 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2000]

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive history of California' s pioneering effort to create an expansive and high-quality system of public higher education. Throughout this century, states established public colleges and universities at a dizzying pace, funding enrollment expansion to fit their perceived economic and social needs, and launching a truly dramatic experiment in social engineering. The result was a transformation of the scope and purpose of American higher education, and leading the way was California, with its internationally renowned network of public colleges and universities.

Contents:

Introduction: California and a Great American Movement 1

1. Statehood and the Idea of a University 19

2. A Fourth Branch of Government 46

3. Progressives and the California Idea 81

4. The Promise of Mass Higher Education and the Junior College 114

5. The Depression and a Regional College Movement 135

6. Postwar Planning and Higher Education 170

7. Rising Costs, the Red Scare, and the End of the Postwar Consensus 198

8. The Commodity of Education and the Race for New Campuses 223

9. Governor Brown, Clark Kerr, and the Demand for Reform 246

10. Negotiating the Master Plan and the Fate of Higher Education in California 265

11. Selling the Plan and the Beginning of a New Era 298

Epilogue: The Master Plan Legacy 314

Appendix 1. California Higher Education Time Line 327

Appendix 2. California Educational Institutions, 1850-1995 345

Appendix 3. California Higher Education Enrollment 358.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-434) and index.

ISBN:

0804731896

OCLC:

42291210