TY - BOOK AU - Schrecker,Ellen TI - The lost promise: American universities in the 1960s SN - 9780226200859 (cloth) AV - LA 227.3 S377l 2021 U1 - 378.73 PY - 2021/// CY - Chicago PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Education, Higher KW - United States KW - History KW - Educación superior KW - Historia KW - Estados Unidos KW - Universities and colleges KW - Universidades y colegios KW - College students KW - Political activity KW - Estudiantes universitarios KW - Actividad política KW - Nineteen sixties N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "Ellen Schrecker shows how universities shaped the 1960s, and how the 1960s shaped them. Teach-ins and walkouts-in institutions large and small, across both the country and the political spectrum-were only the first actions that came to redefine universities as hotbeds of unrest for some and handmaidens of oppression for others. The tensions among speech, education, and institutional funding came into focus as never before-and the reverberations remain palpable today"-- ER -