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This seminar focuses on the history of public higher education in the United States since World War II. Beginning with a discussion of the GI Bill and increased federal involvement in higher education in the wake of the war, this course will continue through the postwar era, touching on the Vietnam-era student protest movements as well as the conservative backlash. It will then examine budget cuts and their results in the wake of the 1970s economic crisis. The course then concludes with an examination of the neoliberalization of the public university system and the rise of what Davarian L. Baldwin has dubbed “the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities.” Throughout the course, the changing role of the humanities in the American public university will also be addressed.
- Lehrende/r: Nicholas Johnson