| Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century Subjects: Higher education and state -- United States; Federal aid to higher education -- United States; Education Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States; Education Higher -- Political aspects -- United States; Education Higher -- Social aspects -- Unite; This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state. Christopher P. Loss is assistant professor of public policy and higher education at Vanderbilt University. |