Ris Ethan W. - Other People's Colleges The Origins Of American Higher Education Reform - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: An illuminating history of the reform agenda in higher education. For well over one hundred years people have been attempting to make American colleges and universities more efficient and more accountable. Indeed Ethan Ris argues in Other People's Colleges the reform impulse is baked into American higher education the result of generations of elite reformers who have called for sweeping changes in the sector and raised existential questions about its sustainability. When that reform is beneficial offering major rewards for minor changes colleges and universities know how to assimilate it. When it is hostile attacking autonomy or values they know how to resist it. The result is a sector that has learned to accept top - down reform as part of its existence. In the early twentieth century the academic engineers a cadre of elite external reformers from foundations businesses and government worked to reshape and reorganize the vast base of the higher education pyramid. Their reform efforts were largely directed at the lower tiers of higher education but those efforts fell short despite the wealth and power of their backers leaving a legacy of successful resistance that affects every college and university in the United States. Today another coalition of business leaders philanthropists and politicians is again demanding efficiency accountability and utility from American higher education. But as Ris argues top - down design is not destiny. Drawing on extensive and original archival research Other People's Colleges offers an account of higher education that sheds light on today's reform agenda.
Title: Other People's Colleges The Origins Of American Higher Education Reform
Author(s): Ris Ethan W.
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226820224
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 6/27/2022
Category: Higher & Further Education, Tertiary Education