The chosen : the hidden history of admission and exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton / Jerome Karabel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Karabel, Jerome.

Contributor:

Class of 1953 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges.

United States.

United States--Atlantic States.

Universities and colleges--Atlantic States--Admission.

Education, Higher--United States--History.

Education, Higher.

History.

Universities and colleges--Admission.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 711 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Mariner books edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Summary:

The author presents the findings of his survey of admissions at Princeton, revealing a century of exclusion that cuts to the core of the American experience, while raising questions about the stratification of higher education in America.

Contents:

Part I: The origins of selective admissions, 1900-1933

Elite education and the protestant ethos

The big three before selective admissions

Harvard and the battle over restriction

The "Jewish problem" at Yale and Princeton

Part II: The struggle over meritocracy, 1933-1965

Harvard's Conant: the man and his ideals

The reality of admissions under Conant

Reluctant reform comes to Yale

Princeton: the club expands its membership

Wilbur Bender and his legacy

Tradition and change at old Nassau

Yale: from insularity to inclusion

Part III: Inclusion and the persistence of privilege, 1965-2005

Inky Clark, Kingman Brewster and the revolution at Yale

Racial conflict and the incorporation of Blacks

Coeducation and the struggle for gender equality

The alumni revolt at Yale and Princeton

Diversity, the Bakke case, and the defense of autonomy

Money, the market ethos, and the struggle for position

The battle over merit.

Notes:

National Jewish Book Awards - American Jewish History, Winner, 2005

"A Mariner book".

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 676-682) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.

ISBN:

9780618773558

061877355X

OCLC:

819469504

Publisher Number:

99981092257

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