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The Conditions for Admission Access Equity and the Social Contract of Public Universities 1st Edition by John Aubrey Douglass 0804755590 978-0804755597

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Author(s): John Douglass
ISBN(s): 9781435608962, 1435608968
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.21 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0804755590

ISBN 13: 978-0804755597

Author: John Aubrey Douglass

The social contract of public universities―the progressive idea that any citizen who meets specified academic conditions can gain entry to their state university―has profoundly shaped American society. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of admission policies and practices at public universities. Using the University of California, the nation’s largest public research university and among its most selective, as an illuminating case study, it explores historical and contemporary debates over affirmative action, gender, class, standardized testing, and the growing influences of privatization and globalization, and indeed the very purpose and future of these important public institutions.

The United States has been the world leader in developing mass higher education, using its pioneering network of public universities to promote socioeconomic mobility and national economic competitiveness. But the author warns that access and graduation rates have stagnated and may even be declining, particularly among younger students. Other countries, including key members of the European Union, along with China, India, and other developing nations, are aggressively reshaping and expanding their higher education systems. The “American advantage” of a high-quality and high-access higher education system is waning. The closing chapters explore why this is the case and the consequences within an increasingly competitive global economy.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Building a Public University and Creating the Social Contract

Chapter 2: The Public University Movement and California

Chapter 3: Building a Higher Education System and Broadening Access

Chapter 4: Inclusion, Exclusion, and the Issue of Race

Chapter 5: The Managerial University and the Post-World War II Era

Chapter 6: The Master Plan, the SAT, and Managing Demand

Chapter 7: Countervailing Forces: Standardized Testing and Affirmative Action

Chapter 8: For Every Action a Reaction: Race, Bakke, and the Social Contract Revisited

Chapter 9: Modern Battles over Equity, Affirmative Action, and Testing

Chapter 10: California’s Affirmative-Action Fight

Chapter 11: The First Aftermath: Outreach and Comprehensive Review

Chapter 12: The Second Aftermath: President Atkinson Versus the SAT

Chapter 13: Whither the Social Contract? The Postmodern World and the Primacy of Higher Education

Chapter 14: Perils and Opportunities: Autonomy, Merit, and Privatization

Chapter 15: The Waning of America’s Higher Education Advantage

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