THE FIFTH WAVE THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION

• Main Authors: Crow, Michael M. (Author), Dabars, William B. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore, Maryland Johns Hopkins University Press 2020; ©2020
• Subjects: Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States; Universities and colleges > Administration > United States
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• Physical Description: xiii, 478 pages charts 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781421438023

"Building on the success of Designing the New American University (JHUP, 2015), this book examines the historical development of American higher education (in four preceding waves: colonial colleges, universities state universities, land-grant universities, research) and then describes the emerging next wave of institutions that will transform the field. What emerges in this fifth wave of universities, of which ASU is an exemplar, are institutions responsive to the needs of students, committed to access, regionally embedded, and focused on solving global problems interdisciplinarily"