The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr's California Idea of Higher Education

by Simon Marginson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013286561
• ISBN13: 9781013286568
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"