Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Historians and Higher Education
1. Colleges in the Colonial Era
2. Creating the "American Way" in Higher Education:
College-Building, 1785 to 1860
3. Diversity and Adversity: Resilience in American Higher
Education, 1860 to 1890
4. Captains of Industry and Erudition: University-Builders, 1880 to
1910
5. Alma Mater: America Goes to College, 1890 to 1920
6. Success and Excess: Expansion and Reforms in Higher Education,
1920 to 1945
7. Gilt by Association: Higher Education's "Golden Age," 1945 to
1970
8. Coming of Age in America: Higher Education as a Troubled Giant,
1970 to 2000
9. A New Life Begins? Reconfiguring American Higher Education in
the Twenty-first Century
10. Prominence and Problems: American Higher Education since
2010
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
The definitive history of American higher education—now up to date.
John R. Thelin is a University Research Professor and a member of the Educational Policy Studies Department at the University of Kentucky. His many books include Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education and Going to College in the Sixties.
Required reading for anyone who wants to offer any utterance, no
matter how small, about where higher ed might be going.
—Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed
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