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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jerome Karabel |
| OCLC Number: | 1029285332 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 711 pages : illustrations) |
| Contents: | Part I: The origins of selective admissions, 1900-1933 -- Elite education and the protestant ethos -- The big three before selective admissions -- Harvard and the battle over restriction -- The "Jewish problem" at Yale and Princeton -- Part II: The struggle over meritocracy, 1933-1965 -- Harvard's Conant: the man and his ideals -- The reality of admissions under Conant -- Reluctant reform comes to Yale -- Princeton: the club expands its membership -- Wilbur Bender and his legacy -- Tradition and change at old Nassau -- Yale: from insularity to inclusion -- Part III: Inclusion and the persistence of privilege, 1965-2005 -- Inky Clark, Kingman Brewster and the revolution at Yale -- Racial conflict and the incorporation of Blacks -- Coeducation and the struggle for gender equality -- The alumni revolt at Yale and Princeton -- Diversity, the Bakke case, and the defense of autonomy -- Money, the market ethos, and the struggle for position -- The battle over merit. |
| Responsibility: | Jerome Karabel. |
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Abstract:
The author presents the findings of his survey of admissions at Princeton, revealing a century of exclusion that cuts to the core of the American experience, while raising questions about the stratification of higher education in America.
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- Harvard University -- Admission.
- Princeton University -- Admission.
- Yale University -- Admission.
- Universities and colleges -- Atlantic States -- Admission.
- Education, Higher -- United States -- History.
- Universités -- États de l'Atlantique (États-Unis) -- Admission.
- Enseignement supérieur -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Harvard University.
- Princeton University.
- Yale University.
- Education, Higher.
- Universities and colleges -- Admission.
- United States.
- United States -- Atlantic States.
- Harvard University
- Princeton University
- Yale University
- Hochschulzulassung
- Enseignement supérieur -- États-Unis.
- Universités -- Admission -- États-Unis.
- Harvard university -- Admission.
- Yale university -- Admission.
- Princeton (N.J.) -- Universität.
- New Haven (Conn.) -- Yale University.
