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010 _a 2016035743
020 _a9780226250441 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _z9780226250588 (e-book)
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_beng
_cICU
_erda
_dDLC
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043 _an-us---
050 0 0 _aLA226
_b.L32 2017
082 0 0 _a378.73
_223
100 1 _aLabaree, David F.,
_d1947-
245 1 2 _aA perfect mess :
_bthe unlikely ascendancy of American higher education /
_cDavid F. Labaree.
264 1 _aChicago :
_bThe University of Chicago Press,
_c[2017]
300 _a222 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.
505 0 _aA 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.
650 0 _aEducation, Higher
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aEducation, Higher
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
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949 _aLA226 .L32 2017
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