TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thelin,John R.
TI  - A history of American higher education
SN  - 9781421428826
U1  - 378.00973 21
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Universities and colleges
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Historians and higher education -- Colleges in the Colonial Era -- Creating the "American Way" in higher education: College-building, 1785 to 1860 -- Diversity and adversity: Resilience in American higher education, 1860 to 1890 -- Captains of industry and erudition: University-builders, 1880 to 1910 -- Alma mater: America goes to college, 1890 to 1920 -- Success and excess: Expansion and reforms in higher education, 1920 to 1945 -- Gilt by association: Higher education's "Golden Age," 1945 to 1970 -- Coming of age in America: Higher education as a troubled giant, 1970 to 2000 -- A new life begins: Reconfiguring American higher education in the twenty-first century -- Prominence and problems: American higher education since 2010
ER  -