This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state. Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy education to ready citizens for the national, bureaucratized, and increasingly global world in which they lived. Loss details the myriad ways in which academic leaders and students shaped, and were shaped by, the state's shifting political agenda as it moved from a preoccupation with economic security during the Great Depression, to national security during World War II and the Cold War, to securing the rights of African Americans, women, and other previously marginalized groups during the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, Loss reappraises the origins of higher education's current-day diversity regime, the growth of identity group politics, and the privatization of citizenship at the close of the twentieth century. At a time when people's faith in government and higher education is being sorely tested, this book sheds new light on the close relations between American higher education and politics.

Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century (Politics and Society in Modern America)

History

Loss, Christopher P.

Americas

Princeton University Press

This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state.
 Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy education to ready citizens for the national, bureaucratized, and increasingly global world in which they lived. Loss details the myriad ways in which academic leaders and students shaped, and were shaped by, the state's shifting political agenda as it moved from a preoccupation with economic security during the Great Depression, to national security during World War II and the Cold War, to securing the rights of African Americans, women, and other previously marginalized groups during the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, Loss reappraises the origins of higher education's current-day diversity regime, the growth of identity group politics, and the privatization of citizenship at the close of the twentieth century.
 At a time when people's faith in government and higher education is being sorely tested, this book sheds new light on the close relations between American higher education and politics.

Review\n"Fascinating. Loss's scholarship is well grounded and the writing elegant."―Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago\n"This is an insightful and timely book. Loss effectively has placed a guide written a century and a half ago in the context of its times and intervening history, offering fresh insight into Robert's Rules of Order, its author, the challenges faced by universities, and democracy more broadly."―Brian Balogh, University of Virginia\n"We owe Christopher Loss a genuine debt for having the inspiration to contextualize the origins, evolution, and enduring place of the Rules in American life, with particular attention to higher education. Loss gracefully recounts Henry Robert's story with care and nuance and makes a plausible argument for the widespread reengagement with the Rules by today's colleges and universities."―Eugene Tobin, former president of Hamilton College\n"The major contribution of this text is in Loss's essay, which is historically-interesting and will appeal to historians of education and those interested in understanding the ways in which voluntary and civic organizations came to embrace a standardized set of governing procedures." Lauren C. Bell, Journal of Political Science Education\nA critical edition of the book that paved the way for the democratization of American higher education\nIf you have ever attended a town meeting or business lunch, or participated in a church group or department meeting, or served on a faculty senate or maybe just watched C-SPAN, then you have likely encountered Robert's Rules of Order. This critical edition of Henry M. Robert's essential guide to parliamentary procedure features the original text from 1876 along with a companion essay by Christopher Loss, who artfully recounts the book's publication and popular reception, and sheds light on its enduring value for one of the most vital bastions of democracy itself―the modern university.\nLoss deftly explains why Robert's simple, elegant handbook to democratic governance captured the imagination of so many ordinary citizens during the Gilded Age and how it has shaped the development of our colleges and universities ever since. He shows how Robert's rules can help faculty, administrators, and students to solve problems and overcome challenges through collaboration, disciplined thinking, trust in the facts, and honesty and fairness from all sides.\nAt a time when people's faith in democracy and higher education has been shaken to its core, Robert's Rules of Order offers a powerful reminder of the importance of democratic norms and practices in American life and institutions.

Robert’s Rules of Order, and Why It Matters for Colleges and Universities Today

Business & Money

Robert, Henry Martyn

Business Culture

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Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century (Politics and Society in Modern America)

Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century (Politics and Society in Modern America)

Robert’s Rules of Order, and Why It Matters for Colleges and Universities Today