The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher EducationA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan’s equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world’s leading system of public research universities. The California idea became the leading model for higher education across the world and has had great influence in the rapid growth of universities in China and East Asia. Yet, remarkably, the political conditions supporting the California idea in California itself have evaporated. Universal access is faltering, public tuition is rising, the great research universities face new challenges, and educational participation in California, once the national leader, lags far behind. Can the social values embodied in Kerr’s vision be renewed? |
Contents
CLARK KERR AND THE CALIFORNIA IDEA OF HIGHER EDUCATION | 1 |
An Extraordinary Time | 3 |
Clark Kerr | 5 |
Clark Kerr and the California Idea | 11 |
The Uses of the University | 21 |
Higher Education and Its Growth | 28 |
The Academic Heartland | 36 |
Whither the California Idea of Higher Education? | 40 |
The Global Multiversity | 71 |
Systems and Stratification | 81 |
American Universities in the Global Space | 91 |
Enter the Dragon | 96 |
Higher Education in China and the United States | 110 |
The Impossibility of Public Good | 126 |
Economic and Social Inequality | 143 |
Higher Education and the Economy | 168 |
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