R oger L. G eiger . American Higher Education since World War II

American Higher Education since World War II completes Roger L. Geiger’s history of the rise and fall of the American research university and academic values. In the first volume, History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II (2015), Geiger argued that there have been three consistent purposes for higher education: “knowledge, careers, and culture.” In that volume, Geiger explained why and how American universities embraced knowledge as their primary aim, including raising academic standards and emphasizing research, and what stood in the way. If the first volume was about the rise of the research university, this book is about its fall. The golden age of the American university, for Geiger, is barely a decade or two long in the sweep of American history. He gives the lie to commentators who proclaim that America’s colleges and universities have not changed much. Geiger effectively demonstrates...

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