Honors of Inequality - Historia Research LLC

How Colleges Work for Some (2020)

Honors of Inequality is a critical examination of the origins and key contributions to the scholarship about American higher education during the last half of the twentieth century. Higher education–as an organized discipline or field of study–emerged as a backlash to the professional organization of administrative researchers, the implementation of the 1960 California Master Plan, and the student unrest on American campuses during the 1960s.

Published by Historia|Research Press, the narrative traces the current student loan crisis to a cadre of conservative faculty and scholars motivated by ideological, political, social, and cultural values of ruling class elites. Its historical account of campus politics offers insights–to college-goers, parents, faculty, administrators, policymakers, legislators, and the many other stakeholders in higher education–into the reasons that colleges remain powerful instruments for shaping social and economic inequality in the twenty-first century.

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"An erudite historical study and analysis, 'Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some' is enhanced for academia with the inclusion of illustrations, an informative Prologue, an Epilogue, end notes, Select Bibliography, and Index. A meticulously presented work of impressively original scholarship...[Honors of Inequality] is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to college and university library Education History collections and supplemental curriculum lists."

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"The underlying premise of Honors of Inequality is that ideas matter. When scholars routinely claim that institutions of higher education are unique and require institutional autonomy, they influence--directly and indirectly--the administration of colleges and universities. These ideas in turn determine the mission of college systems in American democracy, how well colleges support the public interest, and which class of citizens higher education seek to serve effectively, efficiently, and affordably. In short, powerful ideas influence colleges to work for some, and not for others, by design."