001374425 000__ 03925cam\\2200625Ii\4500 001374425 001__ 1374425 001374425 003__ OCoLC 001374425 005__ 20231016131209.0 001374425 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001374425 007__ cr\cnu---unuuu 001374425 008__ 170403t20172017ilu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 001374425 019__ $$a980824607 001374425 020__ $$a9780226250588$$q(electronic bk.) 001374425 020__ $$a022625058X$$q(electronic bk.) 001374425 020__ $$z9780226250441$$q(cloth ;$$qalk. paper) 001374425 020__ $$z022625044X$$q(cloth ;$$qalk. paper) 001374425 035__ $$a(OCoLC)980875148 001374425 035__ $$a1374425 001374425 040__ $$aN$T$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cN$T$$dN$T$$dIDEBK$$dEBLCP$$dYDX$$dIUL$$dOCL$$dOCLCQ$$dINT$$dOCLCQ$$dMERUC$$dCUY$$dOCLCQ$$dOSU$$dOCLCQ$$dDEGRU 001374425 043__ $$an-us--- 001374425 049__ $$aISEA 001374425 1001_ $$aLabaree, David F.,$$d1947-$$eauthor. 001374425 24512 $$aA perfect mess :$$bthe unlikely ascendancy of American higher education /$$cDavid F. Labaree. 001374425 264_1 $$aChicago :$$bThe University of Chicago Press,$$c2017. 001374425 264_4 $$c©2017 001374425 300__ $$a1 online resource (222 pages) 001374425 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001374425 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001374425 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001374425 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 001374425 5050_ $$aA system without a plan -- Elements of the American model of higher education -- Unpromising roots -- The ragtag college system in the nineteenth century -- Adding the pinnacle and keeping the base -- The graduate school crowns the system, 1880 -- 1910 -- Mutual subversion -- The liberal and the professional -- Balancing access and advantage -- Private advantage, public impact -- Learning to love the bomb -- America's brief cold war fling with the university as a public good -- Upstairs, downstairs -- Relations between the tiers of the system -- A perfect mess. 001374425 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001374425 5208_ $$aRead the news about America's colleges and universities - rising student debt, affirmative action debates, and conflicts between faculty and administrators - and it's clear that higher education in this country is a total mess. But as David F. Labaree reminds us in this book, it's always been that way. And that's exactly why it has become the most successful and sought-after source of learning in the world. Detailing American higher education's unusual struggle for survival in a free market that never guaranteed its place in society - a fact that seemed to doom it in its early days in the nineteenth century - he tells a lively story of the entrepreneurial spirit that drove American higher education to become the best. And the best it is: today America's universities and colleges produce the most scholarship, earn the most Nobel prizes, hold the largest endowments, and attract the most esteemed students and scholars from around the world. But this was not an inevitability. Weakly funded by the state, American schools in their early years had to rely on student tuition and alumni donations in order to survive. This gave them tremendous autonomy to seek out sources of financial support and pursue unconventional opportunities to ensure their success. As Labaree shows, by striving as much as possible to meet social needs and fulfill individual ambitions, they developed a broad base of political and financial support that, grounded by large undergraduate programs, allowed for the most cutting-edge research and advanced graduate study ever conducted. 001374425 5880_ $$aPrint version record. 001374425 648_7 $$a1800-1999$$2fast 001374425 650_0 $$aEducation, Higher$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century. 001374425 650_0 $$aEducation, Higher$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century. 001374425 650_7 $$aEDUCATION$$xHigher.$$2bisacsh 001374425 650_7 $$aEducation, Higher.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst00903005 001374425 651_7 $$aUnited States.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst01204155 001374425 655_4 $$aElectronic books. 001374425 655_7 $$aHistory.$$2fast$$0(OCoLC)fst01411628 001374425 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aLabaree, David F., 1947-$$tPerfect mess.$$dChicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2017]$$z9780226250441$$w(DLC) 2016035743$$w(OCoLC)956775397 001374425 852__ $$bebk 001374425 85640 $$3eBooks on EBSCOhost$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1467551$$zOnline Access 001374425 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1374425$$pGLOBAL_SET 001374425 980__ $$aBIB 001374425 980__ $$aEBOOK 001374425 982__ $$aEbook 001374425 983__ $$aOnline