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Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's University

Autor Morton Keller, Phyllis Keller
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2007
Early twentieth-century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one. By the century's end, it was widely regarded as the nation's and the world's leading institution of higher education. With verve, humor, and insight, Morton and Phyllis Keller tell the story of that rise: a tale of compelling personalities, notable achievement, and no less notable academic pratfalls. Their book is based on rich and revealing archival materials, interviews, and personal experience. The Kellers begin in 1933, when James Bryant Conant became Harvard's president and set out to change a Brahmin-dominated university into a meritocratic one, and they shed light on the presidencies of Nathan Marsh Pusey, Derek Bok, and Neil Rudenstine. The Kellers cover such events as the campus turbulence of the 1960s, show how the university gradually opened its foors to growing numbers of foreign students, women, African- and Asian - Americans, and Hispanics, and examine the debates over authors feature a new chapter on the controversial presidency of Lawrence Summers, who put Harvard into the national spotlight during his reign, and the abolition of early admissions, which began to change university policies nationwide. The Kellers will draw on archival materials, newspaper articles, and an interview with Summers. The book will appear in time for Class Day in June. Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. This fascinating account, the first comprehensive history of a modern American university, is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the present state and future course of higher education.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195325157
ISBN-10: 019532515X
Pagini: 608
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Ediția:Updated Edition
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

An unusual blend of scholarship, irony, and adulation.
An incredibly detailed and deeply researched look at the players and issues of the last 70 years of Harvard history.
America's premier academic institution well deserves this kind of carefully detailed chronicle.... As long as Harvard embodies the nation's highest cultural aspirations, this volume will find many appreciative readers
A fascinating and engaging account of the rise of Harvard since 1933.
Harvard is both the most modern and the most ancient of American universities. Most ancient as a result of its founding date. Most modern by its commitment to being the best at everything it does

Notă biografică

Morton Keller is Spector Professor of History at Brandeis, and has written extensively on American political and economic institutions. Phyllis Keller was the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences from the 1970s to the 1990s, and is the author of Getting at the Core, an inside look at the creation of Harvard's pioneering core curriculum.