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The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr´s California Idea of Higher Education
Simon Marginson
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Description for The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr´s California Idea of Higher Education
Paperback. Can the social values embodied in Kerr's vision be renewed? This book tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. Series: The Clark Kerr Lectures on the Role of Higher Education in Society. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 figures, 9 tables. BIC Classification: JNAM; JNM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan's equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world's leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and ... Read more
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan's equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world's leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Clark Kerr Lectures on the Role of Higher Education in Society
Condition
New
Weight
417g
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520292840
SKU
V9780520292840
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About Simon Marginson
Simon Marginson is Professor of International Higher Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, and Director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education. He is also joint editor of the journal Higher Education.
Reviews for The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr´s California Idea of Higher Education
This is a remarkable contribution to the debate about the modern university and its place insociety. Higher Education