The Dream Is Over : The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education / Simon Marginson.

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Marginson, Simon, 1951- [author.]

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TextSeries: The Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society ; 4 | Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society ; 4. | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©[2016]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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9780520292840
0520966201
9780520966208

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378.794 23

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LD729.8 .M37 2016

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Summary: "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 are under growing pressure, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags way behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr's vision be renewed?"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index.

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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 are under growing pressure, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags way behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr's vision be renewed?"--Provided by publisher.

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