Morton Keller, Phyllis Keller

Making Harvard Modern (eBook, ePUB)

The Rise of America's University

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. Early twentieth century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one. By the century's end it was widely regarded as the nation's, and the world's, leading institution of higher education. With verve, humor, and insight, Morton and Phyllis Keller tell the story of that rise: a tale of compelling personalities, notable achievement and no less notable academic pratfalls. Their book is based on rich and revealing archival materials, interviews, and personal experience. Young, humbly born James Bryant Conant succeeded Boston Brahmin A. Lawrence Lowell as Harvard's president in 1933, and set out to change a Brahmin-dominated university into a meritocratic one. He hoped to recruit the nation's finest scholars and an outstanding national student body. But the lack of new money during the Depression and the distractions of World War Two kept Conant, and Harvard, from achieving this goal. In the 1950s and 1960s, during the presidency of Conant's successor Nathan Marsh Pusey, Harvard raised the money, recruited the faculty, and attracted the students that made it a great meritocratic institution: America's university. The authors provide the fullest account yet of this transformation, and of the wrenching campus crisis of the late 'sixties. During the last thirty years of the twentieth century, a new academic culture arose: meritocratic Harvard morphed into worldly Harvard. During the presidencies of Derek Bok and Neil Rudenstine the university opened its doors to growing numbers of foreign students, women, African- and Asian-Americans, and Hispanics. Its administration, faculty, and students became more deeply engaged in social issues; its scientists and professional schools were more ready to enter into shared commercial ventures. But worldliness brought its own conflicts: over affirmative action and political correctness, over commercialization, over the ever higher costs of higher education. This fascinating account, the first comprehensive history of a modern American university, is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the present state and future course of higher education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190286880
• Artikelnr.: 42727250

Autorenporträt

Morton Keller is Spector Professor of History at Brandeis, and has written extensively on American political and economic institutions. Phyllis Keller was the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences from the 1970s to the 1990s, and is the author of Getting at the Core, an inside look at the creation of Harvard's pioneering core curriculum.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Fete Accompl, 1936
Part I: Here at Harvard: The Meritocratic University, 1933 - 1953
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2: The College
3: Lesser Breeds
4: The Faculty of Arts and Sciences
5: The Professional Schools
6: Managing Harvard
7: Harvard and the Real World
Part II: An Engine of Power and Responsibily: 1953 - 1971
8: Nathan Marsh Pusey and the Affluent University
9: Governing the Affluent University
10: The Ascendat Faculty
11: The Professional Schools
12: A Plurality of Minorities
13: The College
14: Crisis and Recovery
Part III: A buzzing Confusion: 1971 - 2000
15: Derek Bok and the Wordly University
16: Governing
17: The Faulty of Arts and Sciences
18: The professional Schools
19: The College
Epilogue: Today and Tomorrow
Afterword