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American Higher Education: A History
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by Christopher J. Lucas
Sales Rank: 377106
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 416 pages
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan March 15, 1996
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0312129459
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0312129453
Book Dimensions:
8.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
With economy and clarity, Lucas, professor of education at the University of Arkansas, limns the antecedents of the American college and university system. Proceeding from an examination of the Western cultural heritage to today's higher educational establishments, which he characterizes as unchecked sprawl, overlapping missions and amorphous identities, Lucas avoids contrasting the "untidy" present with a purportedly idyllic past. Instead, he shows that contemporary academic issues often have ancient lineage: town-and-gown antagonism, secret societies, grade inflation. Written for the general reader, this study illuminates current issues of higher education.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Lucas (education, Univ. of Arkansas) touches upon many of the current debates in the academic world and shows how these controversies are really not new. One might believe that the early academics were solely seekers of knowledge, but the author discovers that "students in all times have pursued higher learning for a great variety of reasons, that their motives have been mixed, not pure." Lucas then explores other common misconceptions about higher education. The title is misleading as the first third of the text discusses the beginnings of education through the rise of the medieval university while the remainder documents the growth and development of American academe, including current issues such as gender and multiculturalism. Recommended for academic libraries.
Samuel T. Huang, Northern Illinois Univ. Libs., DeKalb
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: American Higher Education, Second Edition: A History (Paperback)
If you have to own *one* history of higher ed. book, then this one is probably it. It is comprehensive and - despite the fact the author is a tenured professor - is readable. I think it is also better than another recent of history of higher ed. text by Thelin, which focuses mostly on the thirty or forty most selective universities, paying little attention to the institutions that educate the vast majority of the rest of us.
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