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.
• Higher education and state--California--History.
• Higher education and state.
• History.
• Education, Higher.
• 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