English 891EW History of Higher Education in the U.S., Fall 2021, UMass Amherst
Supplemental Bibliography (a work in progress!)

• Axtell, James. “The Death of the Liberal Arts College.” History of Education Quarterly, 11.4 (1971): 339-352.
• Berg, Gary A. The Rise of Women in Higher Education: How, Why, and What’s Next. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.
• Bledstein, Burton. The Culture of Professionalism: The Middle Class and the Development of Higher Education in America. Norton, 1976.
• Bok, Derek. Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More. Princeton UP, 2008.
• Boyer, Paul. Capturing Education: Envisioning and Building the First Tribal Colleges. Pablo, MT: Salish Kootenai College Press, 2015.
• Bracey, Earnest N. “The Significance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the 21st Century: Will Such Institutions of Higher Learning Survive?” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 76.3 (May, 2017): 670-96.
• Brint, Steven, and Jerome Karabel. The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1985. Oxford UP, 1989.
• Brint, Steven. “Few Remaining Dreams: Community Colleges Since 1985,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 586 (2003), 16-37.
• Cassuto, Leonard. The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It. Harvard UP, 2015.
• Cole, Jonathan R. The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected. NY: Public Affairs, 2009.
• Connors, Robert J. Composition-Rhetoric: Backgrounds, Theory, and Pedagogy. U of Pittsburgh P, 1997.
• Favors, Jelani. Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism. U of North Carolina P, 2019.
• Fleming, David. From Form to Meaning: Freshman Composition and the Long Sixties, 1957-1974. U of Pittsburgh P, 2011.
• Freeland, Richard M. Academia’s Golden Age: Universities in Massachusetts, 1945-1970. Oxford UP, 1992.
• Garbus, Julie. “Vida Scudder in the Classroom and in the Archives.” Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition. Eds. Patricia Donahue & Gretchen Flesher Moon. U of Pittsburgh P, 2007: 77-93.
• Geiger, Roger L. The History of Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II. Princeton UP, 2015.
• Graff, Gerald. Professing Literature: An Institutional History. U of Chicago P, 1987.
• Haber, Samuel. “The Professions and Higher Education in America: A Historical View.” In Margaret S. Gordon, ed., Higher Education and the Labor Market. New York: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1974: 237-280.
• Hart, Beth Ann. “Hanging In, Stopping Out, Dropping Out: Community College Students in an Age of Precarity.” Teachers College Record, 121 (2019): 1-30.
• Hoang, Haivan V. Writing Against Racial Injury: The Politics of Asian American Student Rhetoric. U of Pittsburgh P, 2015.
• Hutcheson, Philo A. A People’s History of American Higher Education. Routledge, 2020.
• Karpowitz, Daniel. College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration. Rutgers UP, 2017.
• Kerr, Clark. The Uses of the University. 5th ed. Harvard UP, 2001.
• Kohler, Robert E. “The PhD Machine: Building on the Collegiate Base.” Isis, 81.4 (1990): 638-662.
• Labaree, David F. A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education. U of Chicago P, 2017.
• Leslie, W. Bruce. “The Curious Tale of Liberal Education, Professional Training and the American College, 1880–1910.” History of Education, 40.1 (2011): 83-95.
• Lewontin, Richard. “The Cold War and the Transformation of the Academy.” The Cold War and the University. Ed., Noam Chomsky et al. New Press, 1997. 1-34.
• Loss, Christopher P.  Between Citizens and the State: The Politics of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century.  Princeton UP, 2012.
• Makdisi, George. “The Scholastic Method in Medieval Education: An Inquiry into its Origins in Law and Theology.” Speculum, 49.4 (1974): 640-661.
• Marginson, Simon. “The Worldwide Trend to High Participation Higher Education: Dynamics of Social Stratification in Inclusive Systems.” Higher Education, 72 (2016): 413-434.
• ---. The Dream Is Over: The Crisis of Clark Kerr’s California Idea of Higher Education. U of California P, 2016.
• McCoy, Meredith, Roopika Risam, and Jennifer Guiliano, “The Future of Land-Grab Universities,” Native American and Indigenous Studies, 8.1 (2021): 169-175.
• McGurl, Mark. The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the rise of Creative Writing. Harvard UP, 2009.
• McLachlan, James. “The Choice of Hercules: American Student Societies in the Early 19th Century.” The University in Society, Vol. II. Ed. Lawrence Stone. Princeton UP, 1974: 449-494.
• Menand, Louis, Paul Reitter, and Chad Wellmon, eds. The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook. U of Chicago P, 2017.
• Newfield, Christopher. Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class. Harvard UP, 2008.
• Oakeshott, Michael. “The Idea of a University.” First publ., 1950. Rept. Academic Questions, Winter 2003-04: 23-30.
• Ogren, Christine A. “Rethinking the ‘Nontraditional’ Student from a Historical Perspective: State Normal Schools in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” Journal of Higher Education, 74.6 (2003): 640-664.
• Pedersen, Olaf. The First Universities: Studium Generale and the Origins of University Education in Europe. Trans. Richard North. Cambridge UP, 1997.
• Perkin, Harold. “History of Universities.” International Handbook of Higher Education, Vol. 1, eds. James J. F. Forest & Philip G. Altbach. Springer, 2007. 159-205.
• Poulson, Susan L. “Simmons College: Meeting the Needs of Women Workers.” Challenged by Coeducation: Women’s Colleges Since the 1960s. Eds. Leslie Miller-Bernal & Susan L. Poulson. Vanderbilt UP, 2007: 208-233.
• Readings, Bill. The University in Ruins. Harvard UP, 1996.
• Reuben, Julie A. The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996.
• Rothblatt, Sheldon. “The Limbs of Osiris: Liberal Education in the English-Speaking World.” In The European and American University Since 1800: Historical and Sociological Essays. Ed. Sheldon Rothblatt and Björn Wittrock. Cambridge UP, 1993. 19-73.
• Rothermel, Beth Ann. “’Our Life’s Work’: Rhetorical Preparation and Teaching Training at a Massachusetts State Normal School, 1839-1929.” Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition. Eds. Patricia Donahue & Gretchen Flesher Moon. U of Pittsburgh P, 2007: 134-158.
• Rudolph, Frederick. The American College and University: A History. 2nd ed. U of Georgia P, 1990.
• Salinas, Jr., Cristobal. “Transforming academia and theorizing spaces for Latinx in higher education: voces perdidas and voces de poder.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 30.8 (2017): 746-758.
• Santa-Ramirez, Stephen. “A Historical Snapshot of Latinx Student Activism from the 1960s to 1990s: A University Archival Analysis.” Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, (2021): 1-14.
• Scott, John C. “The Chautauqua Movement: Revolution in Popular Higher Education.” The Journal of Higher Education, 70. 4 (1999): 389-412.
• Shils, Edward. “The Order of Learning in the United States from 1865 to 1920: The Ascendancy of the Universities.” Minerva, 16.2 (1978): 159-195.
• Solomon, Barbara Miller, In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America, Yale UP, 1985
• Thelin, John R. A History of American Higher Education. 3rd ed. Johns Hopkins UP, 2019.
• Trow, Martin. Twentieth-Century Higher Education: Elite to Mass to Universal. Ed. Michael Burrage. Johns Hopkins UP, 2010.
• Veysey, Laurence R. The Emergence of the American University. U of Chicago P, 1965.
• Waterman, Stephanie J. “New Research Perspectives on Native American Students in Higher Education,” Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (JCSCORE), 5.1 (2019): 61-80.
• Webster, David S. “Rudolph’s American College & University: A History: An Appraisal a Generation after Publication.” Review of Higher Education, 13.3 (1990): 398-411.
• Wechsler, Harold S., Lester F. Goodchild, & Linda Eisenmann, eds. The History of Higher Education, an ASHE Reader, 3rd ed. Pearson, 2007. Available online at http://www.pearsoncustom.com/mi/msu_ashe/ .