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.

Education, Higher--History--California.

Higher education and state--History--California.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 460 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The author traces the social, political, and economic forces that shaped public higher education in California, and depicts its major personalities - such as David Starr Jordan, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Hiram Johnson, Earl Warren, and Clark Kerr. The result is a carefully crafted history of California public higher education from statehood to the politics and economic forces that eventually resulted in the 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: California and a great American movement

Statehood and the idea of a university

A fourth branch of government

Progressives and the California idea

The promise of mass higher education and the junior college

The depression and a regional college movement

Postwar planning and higher education

Rising costs, the red scare, and the end of the postwar consensus

The commodity of education and the race for new campuses

Governor Brown, Clark Kerr, and the demand for reform

Negotiating the master plan and the fate of higher education in California

Selling the plan and the beginning of a new era

Epilogue: the master plan legacy.

Notes:

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

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph