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The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915 1940

The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915 1940

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20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Education

ISBN10: 0801418844
ISBN13: 9780801418846
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Jul 15 1986
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Is higher education a right or a privilege? Who should go to college? What should they study there? These questions were hotly debated between the world wars, when an unprecedented boom in college enrollments forced Americans to struggle between their belief in the importance of educational opportunity and their desire to preserve the existing social structure. In The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915-1940, David O. Levine offers the first in-depth history of higher education during this era, a period when colleges and universities became arbiters of social and economic mobility and a hierarchy of schools evolved to meet growing demands for occupational training and socialization.

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