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A Good Crisis: Emergencies and the Reframing of American Higher Education, 1944-1965
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Ris, Ethan W. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2023
The purported "Golden Age" of American higher education, typically associated with the two decades following World War II, was marked by increasingly generous federal support of the nation's postsecondary institutions and their students. Unlike analyses that attribute this largesse to factors like geopolitics (i.e., a response to the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Crisis Management, Emergency Programs, Educational History
"Laboratories of Inter-Race and Interfaith Fellowship": "Higher Education for American Democracy's" Vision for a More Democratic Academy and Country
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Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
There was a lot of talk about both the fate of American democracy and American higher education in 2021, but not much consideration about how the two were deeply intertwined. The 1947 report "Higher Education for American Democracy" showed awareness of how race, sex, class, and religious discrimination thwarted the talents and ambitions…
Descriptors: Democracy, Higher Education, Educational History, Veterans