Twentieth-Century Higher Education: Elite to Mass to Universal

by Martin Trow, Michael Burrage

Overview

Distinguished by their sharp insights, eloquence, even humor, the writings of Martin Trow on the development of higher education have helped define the field. Collected here are his most influential essays, tracing the arc and evolution of his prolific scholarly career over more than four decades.

Trow is well known for his pioneering work on the transition from elite to mass to universal higher education, and scholars worldwide continue to use his conceptual framework for analyzing and comparing institutions.

As both a sociologist and a public policy analyst, Trow hoped his analyses of higher education would help influence public policy. He believed that understanding how higher education had developed—its peculiarities in a particular society and the direction of change within it—would lead to wiser policy choices.

Martin Trow began compiling this collection before his death in 2007. Editor Michael Burrage, along with Trow’s friends and colleagues, worked to carry out Trow's wishes, writing introductions to the essays which situate them in their context and which continue each contributor’s conversations with Trow during his lifetime.

Those seriously interested in the emergence of mass higher education, and the debates surrounding it, will appreciate finding many of Trow's groundbreaking works—including three articles never before published—in a single volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801894428
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	06/28/2010
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.48(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Martin Trow (1926–2007) was one of higher education’s most influential and prolific writers. Much of his distinguished career was spent at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also served as Director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education. His many publications on political sociology and comparative education include The British Academics, Students and Colleges, The New Production of Knowledge, and Accountability of Colleges and Universities.

Michael Burrage is a research fellow emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Emergence of an Enduring Theme
Chapter 1. The Second Transformation of American Secondary Education
Chapter 2. Problems in the Transition from Elite to Mass Higher Education
Chapter 3. Elite Higher Education: An Endangered Species?
Part II: Causes and Consequences of America's Advantage
Chapter 4. Federalism in American Higher Education
Chapter 5. Class, Race, and Higher Education in America
Part III: Britain as a Contrasting Case
Chapter 6. Academic Standards and Mass Higher Education
Chapter 7. Managerialism and the Academic Profession: The Case of England
Part IV: The Private Lives of American Universities
Chapter 8. The Campus as a Context for Learning: Notes on Education and Architecture
Chapter 9. The American Academic Department as a Context for Learning
Chapter 10. Guests without Hosts: Notes on the Institute for Advanced Study
Chapter 11. New Directions for the Center for Studies in Higher Education: The 1977–78 Annual Report
Part V: Governance and Reform of the American University
Chapter 12. Leadership and Organization: The Case of Biology at Berkeley
Chapter 13. Comparative Reflections on Leadership in Higher Education
Chapter 14. Governance in the University of California: The Transformation of Politics into Administration
Chapter 15. California after Racial Preferences
Part VI: The Completion of the Transformation
Chapter 16. From Mass Higher Education to Universal Access: The American Advantage
Chapter 17. Reflections on the Transition from Elite to Mass to Universal Access: Forms and Phases of Higher Education in Modern Societies since World War II
Contributors
About the Author
Index

Editorial Reviews

Highly instructive.

International Review of Education - Darko Strajn

Highly instructive.

— Darko Strajn

International Review of Education

Highly instructive.
—Darko Strajn, International Review of Education

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