Marginson, S;
(2016)
The dream is over: The crisis of Clark Kerr's California idea of higher education.
(1st ed.).
University of California Press: Oakland, CA, USA.
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Abstract
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 face new challenges, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags far behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr's vision be renewed?
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | The dream is over: The crisis of Clark Kerr's California idea of higher education |
| ISBN-13: | 9780520292840 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1525/luminos.17 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.17 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access book distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (unless stated otherwise), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright is retained by the author(s). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10041830 |
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