The California Idea and American Higher Education
eBook - ePub

The California Idea and American Higher Education

1850 to the 1960 Master Plan

  1. 480 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The California Idea and American Higher Education

1850 to the 1960 Master Plan

About this book

Throughout the twentieth century, public universities were established across the United States at a dizzying pace, transforming the scope and purpose of American higher education. Leading the way was California, with its internationally renowned network of public colleges and universities. This book is the first comprehensive history of California's pioneering efforts to create an expansive and high-quality system of public higher education.

The author traces the social, political, and economic forces that established and funded an innovative, uniquely tiered, and geographically dispersed network of public campuses in California. This influential model for higher education, "The California Idea," created an organizational structure that combined the promise of broad access to public higher education with a desire to develop institutions of high academic quality. Following the story from early statehood through to the politics and economic forces that eventually resulted in the 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education, The California Idea and American Higher Education offers a carefully crafted history of public higher education.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: California and a Great American Movement
  9. 1. Statehood and the Idea of a University
  10. 2. A Fourth Branch of Government
  11. Photographs
  12. 3. Progressives and the California Idea
  13. 4. The Promise of Mass Higher Education and the Junior College
  14. 5. The Depression and a Regional College Movement
  15. 6. Postwar Planning and Higher Education
  16. 7. Rising Costs, the Red Scare, and the End of the Postwar Consensus
  17. 8. The Commodity of Education and the Race for New Campuses
  18. 9. Governor Brown, Clark Kerr, and the Demand for Reform
  19. 10. Negotiating the Master Plan and the Fate of Higher Education in California
  20. 11. Selling the Plan and the Beginning of a New Era
  21. Epilogue: The Master Plan Legacy
  22. Appendix 1. California Higher Education Time Line
  23. Appendix 2. California Educational Institutions, 1850–1995
  24. Appendix 3. California Higher Education Enrollment
  25. Notes
  26. Bibliography
  27. Index