Higher Education in Transition (Foundations of Higher Education) - Softcover

Rudy, Willis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560009179 ISBN 13: 9781560009177

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

At a time when our colleges and universities face momentous questions of new growth and direction, the republication of Higher Education in Transition is more timely than ever. Beginning with colonial times, the authors trace the development of our college and university system chronologically, in terms of men and institutions. They bring into focus such major areas of concern as curriculum, administration, academic freedom, and student life. They tell their story with a sharp eye for the human values at stake and the issues that will be with us in the future.

One gets a sense not only of temporal sequence by centuries and decades but also of unity and continuity by a review of major themes and topics. Rudy's new chapters update developments in higher education during the last twenty years. Higher Education in Transition continues to have significance not only for those who work in higher education, but for everyone interested in American ideas, traditions, and social and intellectual history.

About this title

About the Author:

John S. Brubacher was professor of the history and philosophy of education at Yale and the University of Michigan.

Review:

"[Higher Education in Transition] is a superb contribution to American social and intellectual history, and the best history extant of the American college and university."

-Sol Cohen, Change

This volume is highly recommended, not only to students and practitioners of higher education, to whom it is indispensable, but to all who would truly understand what may well be the most important factor in our ultimate survival-our colleges and universities."

-Francis H. Horn, New York Times Book Review

"[Higher Education in Transition] is a superb contribution to American social and intellectual history, and the best history extant of the American college and university."

-Sol Cohen, Change

-[Higher Education in Transition] is a superb contribution to American social and intellectual history, and the best history extant of the American college and university.-

-Sol Cohen, Change

This volume is highly recommended, not only to students and practitioners of higher education, to whom it is indispensable, but to all who would truly understand what may well be the most important factor in our ultimate survival-our colleges and universities.-

-Francis H. Horn, New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1560009179
• ISBN 13: 9781560009177
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 576