Suggested further reading
Steven Brint and Jerome Karabel.The Diverted Dream: Community College and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900–1985. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Martin Finkelstein.The Academic Profession: A Synthesis of Social Science Inquiry since World War Two. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984.
David D. Henry.Challenges Past, Challenges Present: An Analysis of American Higher Education since 1930. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1975.
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz.Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Laurence Veysey.The Emergence of the American University. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
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He is the author of The Knowledge Context; Student Politics in America;and other books, and he is editor of the Review of Higher Educationand of International Higher Education: An Encyclopedia.
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Altbach, P.G. Logan wilson and the American academic profession. Society 34, 86–91 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02697009
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