The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education

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 Ame...

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Autor principal: Marginson, Simon (auth)
Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California University of California Press 2016
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Sumario: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 face new challenges, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags far behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr's vision be renewed?
Descripción Física:1 electronic resource (260 p.)
ISBN:luminos.17
9780520966208
Acceso:Open Access