American Higher Education In The 20th Century Summary

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Loss--- Loss, C. P. (2012). Between citizens and the state: The politics of American higher education in the 20th century. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

One of the most important things I learned from the reading involved education being used as a tool during the early 1900’s. College presidents wanted to keep their increased number of students before WWI because most of the men attending colleges had to report to military duty (Loss, 2012). After reporting a loss in enrollment, colleges wanted assistance from the federal government. The government decides on a training on college campuses.

I agreed that our service men deserved adult and higher education for their service to the country. In the early 1920’s when the demand for …show more content…

Private schools have been able to just raise tuition fees while public institutions were unable to do this. Just has we have today the retention of student in the 1920’s continued to be an issue with many colleges. I felt this was noteworthy since enrollment at colleges and university are still important to the growth of an institution. Also it was good to review some success they may have had during the early years of formal education.

It’s interesting to see how college officials are still dealing with many of the concerns today as they did in the 1920s. The access to public education and the cost that changes so frequently to the student. The question continues to remain are we preparing students to be productive citizens post this college experience. An administrator at the University of Chicago stated “it is worthwhile to concentrate for a few sets on the task of adjusting freshman rightly to their new situation” (Loss, …show more content…

Many institutions have established educational programs in foreign countries. This has required colleges and universities to become more informed on foreign law. Many partnerships are done with for-profit and nonprofit colleges in foreign countries, which was interesting to me. When dealing with the foreign countries, it is vital that the institutions use US laws in their contacts. If contracts are not written with US laws in the contract it may find itself subject to litigation in another country (Kaplin and Lee, 2013).

The private institution versus the public institution has always been complex. Many of the influences on higher education have come from the private sector of post second education. Loss states “the very possibility of doing something different than government can do, of creating an institution free to make choices government cannon even seemly arbitrary ones with having to provide a justification that will be defamed in a court of law” (Kaplin and Lee, 2013). Private institutions are sometimes tried different by the states, but federal government continues to treat both private and public the

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