Instrumental University

Ethan Schrum

Description

In The Instrumental University, Ethan Schrum provides an illuminating genealogy of the educational environment in which administrators, professors, and students live and work today. After World War II, research universities in the United States underwent a profound mission change. The Instrumental University combines intellectual, institutional, and political history to reinterpret postwar American life through the changes in higher education. Acknowledging but rejecting the prevailing conception of the Cold War university largely dedicated to supporting national security, Schrum provides a more complete and contextualized account of the American research university between 1945 and 1970. Uncovering a pervasive instrumental understanding of higher education during that era, The Instrumental University shows that universities framed their mission around solving social problems and promoting economic development as central institutions in what would soon be called the knowledge economy. In so doing, these institutions took on more capitalistic and managerial tendencies and, as a result, marginalized founding ideals, such as pursuit of knowledge in academic disciplines and freedom of individual investigators.The technocratic turn eroded some practices that made the American university special. Yet, as Schrum suggests, the instrumental university was not yet the neoliberal university of the 1970s and onwards in which market considerations trumped all others. University of California president Clark Kerr and other innovators in higher education were driven by a progressive impulse that drew on an earlier tradition grounded in a concern for the common good and social welfare.

Sujets

• USA
• University
• History of education
• Higher education
• History of the Americas
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 juin 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501736650
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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THE ïNSTRUMENTA UNïVERSïTY

Histories of American Education

A serîes edîted by Jonathan Zîmmerman

THE ïNSTRUMENTA UNïVERSïTY

E DUCAT I ON I N SE RVI CE OF T HE NAT I ONAL AGE NDA AFT E R WORL D WAR I I

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Cover photo: James G. March (et), oundîng dean o socîa scîences, and Samue McCuoch (rîght), oundîng dean o humanîtîes, ook over the Unîversîty o Caîornîa’s new ïrvîne campus, cîrca 1965. Courtesy o Specîa Coectîons and Archîves, The UC ïrvîne îbrarîes.

To my deîhtu wîe, Kara

Co n t e n t s

 ïntroductîon: The ïnstrumenta Unîversîty and Amerîcan Modernîty  1. The Progressîve Roots o the ïnstrumenta Unîversîty: Pubîc Admînîstratîon, Cîty Pannîng, and ïndustrîa Reatîons  2. Cark Kerr: eadîng Proponent o the ïnstrumenta Unîversîty  3. The Urban Unîversîty as Communîty Servîce ïnstîtutîon: Pennsyvanîa în the Era o Gayord P. Harnwe  4. “ïnstruments o Technîca Cooperatîon”: Amerîcan Unîversîtîes’ ïnstîtutîon Buîdîng Abroad  5. A Use o the Unîversîty o Mîchîgan: Samue P. Hayes Jr. and Economîc Deveopment  6. Foundîng the Unîversîty o Caîornîa at ïrvîne: Hîgh Modern Socîa Scîence and Technocratîc Pubîc Poîcy  Epîogue: Crîtîcs o the ïnstrumenta Unîversîty

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