{"product_id":"9780801895852","title":"American Higher Education Transformed, 1940-2005: Documenting the National Discourse","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis long-awaited sequel to Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith's classic anthology \u003ci\u003eAmerican Higher Education: A Documentary History\u003c\/i\u003e presents one hundred and seventy-two key edited documents that record the transformation of higher education over the past sixty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume includes such seminal documents as Vannevar Bush's 1945 report to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, \u003ci\u003eScience, the Endless Frontier;\u003c\/i\u003e the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e and S\u003ci\u003eweezy v. New Hampshire;\u003c\/i\u003e and Adrienne Rich's challenging essay \"Taking Women Students Seriously.\" The wide variety of readings underscores responses of higher education to a memorable, often tumultuous, half century. Colleges and universities faced a transformation of their educational goals, institutional structures and curricula, and admission policies; the ethnic and economic composition of student bodies; an expanding social and gender membership in the professoriate; their growing allegiance to and dependence on federal and foundation financial aids; and even the definitions and defenses of academic freedom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilson Smith and Thomas Bender have assembled an essential reference for policymakers, administrators, and all those interested in the history and sociology of higher education.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300744478960,"sku":"9780801895852","price":86.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780801895852_p0.jpg?v=1769907123","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780801895852","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}