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John Aubrey Douglass - The Conditions for Admission. Access, Equity, and the Social Contract of Public Universities.  - 9780804755580 - V9780804755580
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The Conditions for Admission. Access, Equity, and the Social Contract of Public Universities.

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Description for The Conditions for Admission. Access, Equity, and the Social Contract of Public Universities. hardcover. The first comprehensive study of the admission policies and practices at U.S. public universities, examining their "social contract" in light of contemporary debates over affirmative action, standardized testing, privatization, and the influences of globalization. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 tables, 13 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNK; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.

The social contract of public universities—the progressive idea that any citizen who meets specified academic conditions can gain entry to their state university—has profoundly shaped American society. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of admission policies and practices at public universities. Using the University of California, the nation's largest public research university and among its most selective, as an illuminating case study, it explores historical and contemporary debates over affirmative action, gender, class, standardized testing, and the growing influences of privatization and globalization, and indeed the very purpose and future of these important public institutions.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804755580
SKU
V9780804755580
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About John Aubrey Douglass
John Aubrey Douglass is Senior Research Fellow for Public Policy and Higher Education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The California Idea and American Higher Education (Stanford, 2000).

Reviews for The Conditions for Admission. Access, Equity, and the Social Contract of Public Universities.
"[Douglass] confronts feel-good terms like 'disadvantaged' and 'underrepresented' that defy precise definition... The point of the book is that our popular belief in the social contract that America has with its colleges, that such institutions exist for the public good, is imperiled by dwindling government support."
Chronicle of Higher Education "The Conditions for Admission expands our understanding of America's ... Read more

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