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Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America
Steven J. Diner
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Description for Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America
Hardback. Ultimately, this book is a considered and long overdue look at the symbiotic impact of these two great American institutions: the city and the university. Num Pages: 192 pages, 14, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSG; JNB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. .
Today, a majority of American college students attend school in cities. But throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries, urban colleges and universities faced deep hostility from writers, intellectuals, government officials, and educators who were concerned about the impact of cities, immigrants, and commuter students on college education. In Universities and Their Cities, Steven J. Diner explores the roots of American colleges' traditional rural bias. Why were so many people, including professors, uncomfortable with nonresident students? How were the missions and activities of urban universities influenced by their cities? And how, improbably, did much-maligned urban universities go on ... Read more
Today, a majority of American college students attend school in cities. But throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries, urban colleges and universities faced deep hostility from writers, intellectuals, government officials, and educators who were concerned about the impact of cities, immigrants, and commuter students on college education. In Universities and Their Cities, Steven J. Diner explores the roots of American colleges' traditional rural bias. Why were so many people, including professors, uncomfortable with nonresident students? How were the missions and activities of urban universities influenced by their cities? And how, improbably, did much-maligned urban universities go on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421422411
SKU
V9781421422411
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About Steven J. Diner
Steven J. Diner is a University Professor at Rutgers University-Newark, where he served as chancellor from 2002 to 2011. The former president of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, he is the author of A City and Its Universities: Public Policy in Chicago, 1892-1919, and A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era.
Reviews for Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America
Diner's slim volume provides a good historical foundation for tracing the shifts in higher education and urban spaces in the United States... Diner's synthetic yet expansive book deserves inclusion in courses grappling with the role of higher education in American life.
The History Teacher
Diner approaches these institutions with a deep sensitivity to the challenges and opportunities they ... Read more
The History Teacher
Diner approaches these institutions with a deep sensitivity to the challenges and opportunities they ... Read more