The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915–1940 / / David O. Levine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Levine, David O.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 / Introduction -- 2 / The Colleges Go to War -- 3 / Business Goes to the Colleges -- 4 / Expansion and the Urban University -- 5 / Curriculum Reform between the World Wars -- 6 / The Middle-Class Culture on the Campus -- 7 / Discrimination in College Admissions -- 8 / The Junior College and the Differentiation of the Public Sector -- 9 / Higher Education during the Depression -- 10 / Is Higher Education a Privilege or a Right? -- Notes -- References -- Index