Higher Education and the Common Good

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 9

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America (Cornell University Press, 2017) is the first comprehensive history of American higher education to engage a fundamental question dating to the nation’s founding: How, if at all, have colleges and universities contributed to the common good? This session will convene three leading scholars to discuss the book’s central claims.

Sub Unit

• Division F - Historical Inquiry in Education

Chair

• Daniel Perlstein, University of California - Berkeley

Papers

• Serving as Panelist - Steven Diner

• Serving as Panelist - Scott Gelber, Wheaton College

• Serving as Panelist - Joy Ann Williamson-Lott, University of Washington

Discussant

• Charles Dorn, Bowdoin College