TY  - BOOK
AU  - Labaree,David F.
TI  - A perfect mess: the unlikely ascendancy of American higher education 
SN  - 9780226250441 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - LA226 .L32 2017
U1  - 378.73 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index; 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
ER  -