Labaree, David F.,  1947- <br/><br/>
A perfect mess :  the unlikely ascendancy of American higher education / 
David F. Labaree. 
 - 222 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index. 
<br/><br/>A system without a plan -- Elements of the American model of higher education -- Unpromising roots -- The ragtag college system in the nineteenth century -- Adding the pinnacle and keeping the base -- The graduate school crowns the system, 1880 - 1910 -- Mutual subversion -- The liberal and the professional -- Balancing access and advantage -- Private advantage, public impact -- Learning to love the bomb -- America's brief cold war fling with the university as a public good -- Upstairs, downstairs -- Relations between the tiers of the system -- A perfect mess. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226250441 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016035743 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Education, Higher--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Education, Higher--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LA226  / .L32 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>378.73