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Author : West Virginia University
Release : 1969
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Book Synopsis Publications of the Faculty and Staff, 1960-1969 by : West Virginia University
Download or read book Publications of the Faculty and Staff, 1960-1969 written by West Virginia University. This book was released on 1969. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : West Virginia University
Release : 1962
Genre : West Virginia
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Book Synopsis Publications of the Faculty and Staff by : West Virginia University
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Author : Ellen Schrecker
Release : 2021-12-17
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Lost Promise by : Ellen Schrecker
Download or read book The Lost Promise written by Ellen Schrecker. This book was released on 2021-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost Promise is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors as well as students. The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia’s golden age, when universities—well-funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility—embraced an egalitarian mission. Swelling in size, schools attracted new types of students and professors, including radicals who challenged their institutions’ calcified traditions. But that halcyon moment soon came to a painful and confusing end, with consequences that still afflict the halls of ivy. In The Lost Promise, Ellen Schrecker—our foremost historian of both the McCarthy era and the modern American university—delivers a far-reaching examination of how and why it happened. Schrecker illuminates how US universities’ explosive growth intersected with the turmoil of the 1960s, fomenting an unprecedented crisis where dissent over racial inequality and the Vietnam War erupted into direct action. Torn by internal power struggles and demonized by conservative voices, higher education never fully recovered, resulting in decades of underfunding and today’s woefully inequitable system. As Schrecker’s magisterial history makes blazingly clear, the complex blend of troubles that disrupted the university in that pivotal period haunts the ivory tower to this day.
Author : William J. Shkurti
Release : 2016
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis The Ohio State University in the Sixties by : William J. Shkurti
Download or read book The Ohio State University in the Sixties written by William J. Shkurti. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 5:30 p.m. on May 6, 1970, an embattled Ohio State University President Novice G. Fawcett took the unprecedented step of closing down the university. Despite the presence of more than 1,500 armed highway patrol officers, Ohio National Guardsmen, deputy sheriffs, and Columbus city police, university and state officials feared they could not maintain order in the face of growing student protests. Students, faculty, and staff were ordered to leave; administrative offices, classrooms, and laboratories were closed. The campus was sealed off. Never in the first one hundred years of the university's existence had such a drastic step been necessary. Just a year earlier the campus seemed immune to such disruptions. President Nixon considered it safe enough to plan an address at commencement. Yet a year later the campus erupted into a spasm of violent protest exceeding even that of traditional hot spots like Berkeley and Wisconsin. How could conditions have changed so dramatically in just a few short months? Using contemporary news stories, long overlooked archival materials, and first-person interviews, The Ohio State University in the Sixties explores how these tensions built up over years, why they converged when they did and how they forever changed the university.
Author : John R. Thelin
Release : 2018-11-15
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Going to College in the Sixties by : John R. Thelin
Download or read book Going to College in the Sixties written by John R. Thelin. This book was released on 2018-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in social and political history, with a scope that will appeal both to a new generation of scholars and to alumni of the era, this engaging book allows readers to consider "going to collegein both the past and the present.
