The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education
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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 has had great influence in the rapid growth of universities in China and East Asia. Yet, remarkably, the political conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated. Universal access is faltering, public tuition is rising, the great research universities face new challenges, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags far behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr's vision be renewed? This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1013286561
ISBN13:9781013286568
Release Date:October 2020
Publisher:Saint Philip Street Press
Length:258 Pages
Weight:1.33 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"
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