American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915–1940
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- ISBN 9780801494987
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jan 1988
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Is higher education a right or a privilege? Who should go to college? What should they study there? These questions were hotly debated between the world wars, when an unprecedented boom in college enrollments forced Americans to struggle between their belief in the importance of educational opportunity and their desire to preserve the existing social structure. In The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915–1940, David O. Levine offers the first in-depth history of higher education during this era, a period when colleges and universities became arbiters of social and economic mobility and a hierarchy of schools evolved to meet growing demands for occupational training and socialization.
David O. Levine teaches history at the University of California, Los Angeles.
