Freedom and American Higher Education
by Stephen Chambers
Freedom and American Higher Education explores the relationship between educational freedom and the development of a free society. It retraces the record of federal control over higher education and shows how those controls serve to diminish educational freedom in the United States. Yet Americans’ disaffection with the current state of higher education is motivating greater levels of federal control. Regulation of higher education at the cost of institutional autonomy and academic freedom is a threat to democracy. This book explains why democracy will be jeopardized if greater regulation is imposed upon American higher education, and it presents solutions for reversing this dangerous trend.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stephen Chambers, Ph.D., is the Director of Institutional Research & Assessment and Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He has studied and taught the history of American education for over twenty years. His background as an educational historian complements his work in contemporary higher education planning.
(2006, paperback, 58 pages)
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Freedom and American Higher Education explores the relationship between educational freedom and the development of a free society. It retraces the record of federal control over higher education and shows how those controls serve to diminish educational freedom in the United States. Yet Americans’ disaffection with the current state of higher education is motivating greater levels of federal control. Regulation of higher education at the cost of institutional autonomy and academic freedom is a threat to democracy. This book explains why democracy will be jeopardized if greater regulation is imposed upon American higher education, and it presents solutions for reversing this dangerous trend.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stephen Chambers, Ph.D., is the Director of Institutional Research & Assessment and Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He has studied and taught the history of American education for over twenty years. His background as an educational historian complements his work in contemporary higher education planning.
(2006, paperback, 58 pages)
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days.
