In teasing out the emergence of different social ethoses within higher education over time, Dorn has produced a book that offers insightful analysis on the past and important perspective to the present.
Michael S. Hevel and Heidi Jaeckle, University of Arkansas
History of Education Quarterly
Charles Dorn knows a great deal about higher educationand For ... Read morethe Common Good covers excellent topics.
Joseph F. Kett, James Madison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Virginia, author of Merit: The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century Charles Dorn knows a great deal about higher education, and For the Common Good covers excellent topics.
Joseph F. Kett, James Madison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Virginia, and author of Merit: The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century Charles Dorn offers productive insights into the ways that higher education institutions in the United States have maintained their commitment to advancing the common good over time, even with profound social, political, and economic societal changes.
Laura W. Perna, coauthor of The Attainment Agenda In this engaging look at a remarkable breadth of institutions, Charles Dorn offers compelling new insights into more than two centuries of higher education as well as reassurance that the common-good ethos will survive the current wave of corporatization and consumerism.
Christine A. Ogren, author of The American State Normal School Charles Dorn's refreshing analysis is persuasive in showing that higher education for the common good is both central and complex for American colleges and universities in the past, present, and future. Best of all, his book shows how historical research can be readable and pertinent to our policy discussions today.
John R. Thelin, author of A History of American Higher Education In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn demonstrates a rare recognition of how students' own choices impacted-and sometimes shifted-the declared missions of colleges and universities over time.
Linda Eisenmann, author of Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965 Show Less