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Higher Education Divided

National Expectations and the Bifurcation of Purpose and National Identity, 1946-2016

By: Allison L. Palmadessa

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Higher Education Divided

National Expectations and the Bifurcation of Purpose and National Identity, 1946-2016

By: Allison L. Palmadessa

This book critically considers how tertiary institutions of higher education in the United States are charged with the duty of preserving democracy, teaching citizenship literacy, and contributing to economic stability. The author offers a comparative analysis of how presidential and national policy agendas shape these social institutions’ re-creation and re-constitution of ideological identities that influence the social position of the participants in the institution types, creating a divide in the realization of national identity across institutional and class lines. In fulfilling this role, four- and two-year institutions become representations of the social class divisions in the United States as the institutions and their students experience American national identity differently. By answering a call to serve the American public and presidential agendas, institutions of higher education reinforce the economic and social divisions in American society, resulting in varied understandings of American national identity.

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3030507467

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American National Identity, Policy Paradigms, and Higher Education

A History of the Relationship between Higher Education and the United States, 1862–2015

By: Allison L. Palmadessa

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American National Identity, Policy Paradigms, and Higher Education

A History of the Relationship between Higher Education and the United States, 1862–2015

By: Allison L. Palmadessa

This volume examines the role of higher education in producing and reproducing American cultural identity from 1862 to 2015 and considers whether changes in federal policy regarding higher education result in paradigm shifts that directly impact the purpose of higher education. American institutions of higher education have served as a beacon of American idealism and identity since the foundation of the earliest universities. As the nation developed, higher education matured and maintained a position of importance in the future of the nation. While the university has perpetuated American national cultural identity, the nation-state has resourced and legitimated the university, inextricably linking national identity and higher education. In this historical analysis, the relationship between national identity, federal legislation, and higher education is established, and an identity of superiority, defined in economic terms, reinforced by higher education, is revealed.

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