The Dream Is Over The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education / Simon Marginson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marginson, Simon, 1951- author.

Series:

Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society ; 4.

The Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003--Influence.

University of California (System)--History.

University of California (System).

Education, Higher--Philosophy.

Education, Higher.

Higher education and state--United States.

Higher education and state.

Public universities and colleges--California.

Public universities and colleges.

Education, Higher--California.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2016

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

"The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan's equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world's leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and has had great influence in the rapid growth of universities in China and East Asia. Yet remarkably, the political conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated. Universal access is faltering, public tuition is rising, the great research universities are under growing pressure, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags way behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr's vision be renewed?"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

PART ONE. A CITY UPON A HILL: CLARK KERR AND THE CALIFORNIA IDEA OF HIGHER EDUCATION

1. An Extraordinary Time

2. Clark Kerr

3. Clark Kerr and the California Idea

4. The Uses of the University

5. Martin Trow: Higher Education and Its Growth

6. Bob Clark: The Academic Heartland

7. Whither the California Idea of Higher Education?

PART TWO. CROSSING THE WATERS: THE CALIFORNIA IDEA IN THE WORLD

8. The Idea Spreads

9. Participation without Limit

10. The Spread of Science

11. The Global Multiversity

12. Systems and Stratification

13. American Universities in the Global Space

14. Enter the Dragon

15. Higher Education in China and the United States

PART THREE. BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME: THE CALIFORNIA IDEA IN A MORE UNEQUAL AMERICA

16. Higher Education after Clark Kerr

17. The Impossibility of Public Good

18. The Impossibility of Taxation

19. Economic and Social Inequality

20. Unequal Opportunity

21. Higher Education and the Economy

22. Higher Education and Society

Epilogue: After the Dream

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index.

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ISBN:

9780520966208

0520966201

OCLC:

958308827