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Perspectives on the History of Higher Education: Volume 24, 2005
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Barnes and Noble
Perspectives on the History of Higher Education: Volume 24, 2005
Current price: $180.00
Barnes and Noble
Perspectives on the History of Higher Education: Volume 24, 2005
Current price: $180.00
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Size: Hardcover
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Volume 24 of the
provides historical studies touching on contemporary concernsgender, high-ability students, academic freedom, and, in the case of the Barnes Foundation, the authority of donor intent. Daniel Clark discusses the nuanced changes that occurred to the image of college at the turn of the century. Michael David Cohen offers an important corrective to stereotypes about gender relations in nineteenth-century coeducational colleges. Jane Robbins traces how the young National Research Council embraced the cause of how to identify and encourage superior students as a vehicle for incorporating wartime advances in psychological testing. Susan R. Richardson considers the long Texas tradition of political interference in university affairs. Finally, Edward Epstein and Marybeth Gasman shed historical light on the recent controversy surrounding the Barnes Foundation.
The volume also contains brief descriptions of twenty recent doctoral dissertations in the history of higher education. This serial publication will be of interest to historians, sociologists, and of course, educational policymakers.