Research Catalog

Title

The dream is over : the crisis of Clark Kerr's California idea of higher education / Simon Marginson.

Author

Marginson, Simon, 1951-

Publication

• Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xiv, 243 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan's equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world's leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and has had great influence in the rapid growth of universities in China and East Asia. Yet remarkably, the political conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated. Universal access is faltering, public tuition is rising, the great research universities are under growing pressure, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags way behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr's vision be renewed?"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

The Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society ; 4

Uniform Title

Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society ; 4.

Alternative Title

Crisis of Clark Kerr's California idea of higher education

Subjects

• History
• United States
• California
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Education, Higher > Philosophy
• University of California (System)
• Higher education and state > United States
• Public universities and colleges > California
• Education, Higher > California
• University of California (System) History
• Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003 > Influence

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE CITY UPON A HILL: CLARK KERR AND THE CALIFORNIA IDEA OF HIGHER EDUCATION -- 1. Extraordinary Time -- 2. Clark Kerr -- 3. Clark Kerr and the California Idea -- 4. Uses of the University -- 5. Martin Trow: Higher Education and Its Growth -- 6. Bob Clark: The Academic Heartland -- 7. Whither the California Idea of Higher Education? -- pt. TWO CROSSING THE WATERS: THE CALIFORNIA IDEA IN THE WORLD -- 8. Idea Spreads -- 9. Participation without Limit -- 10. Spread of Science -- 11. Global Multiversity -- 12. Systems and Stratification -- 13. American Universities in the Global Space -- 14. Enter the Dragon -- 15. Higher Education in China and the United States -- pt. THREE BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME: THE CALIFORNIA IDEA IN A MORE UNEQUAL AMERICA -- 16. Higher Education after Clark Kerr -- 17. Impossibility of Public Good -- 18. Impossibility of Taxation -- 19. Economic and Social Inequality -- 20. Unequal Opportunity -- 21. Higher Education and the Economy -- 22. Higher Education and Society.

ISBN

• 9780520292840
• 0520292847

LCCN

^^2016032551

OCLC

953585369

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library