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A perfect mess : the unlikely ascendancy of American higher education / David F. Labaree.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Eng Publication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2017]Description: 222 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226250441 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.73
LOC classification:
  • LA 226 L113p 2017
Contents:
A system without a plan -- Elements of the American model of higher education -- Unpromising roots -- The ragtag college system in the nineteenth century -- Adding the pinnacle and keeping the base -- The graduate school crowns the system, 1880 - 1910 -- Mutual subversion -- The liberal and the professional -- Balancing access and advantage -- Private advantage, public impact -- Learning to love the bomb -- America's brief cold war fling with the university as a public good -- Upstairs, downstairs -- Relations between the tiers of the system -- A perfect mess.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) LA 226 L113p 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000122067

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.

A system without a plan -- Elements of the American model of higher education -- Unpromising roots -- The ragtag college system in the nineteenth century -- Adding the pinnacle and keeping the base -- The graduate school crowns the system, 1880 - 1910 -- Mutual subversion -- The liberal and the professional -- Balancing access and advantage -- Private advantage, public impact -- Learning to love the bomb -- America's brief cold war fling with the university as a public good -- Upstairs, downstairs -- Relations between the tiers of the system -- A perfect mess.

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