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For the Common Good demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities—including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions—and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.
Charles Dorn is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Education at Bowdoin College. He is the author of American Education, Democracy, and the Second World War.
"Charles Dorn offers productive insights into the ways that higher education institutions in the United States have maintained their commitment to advancing the common good over time, even with profound social, political, and economic societal changes."
Christine A. Ogren, author of The American State Normal School:
"In this engaging look at a remarkable breadth of institutions, Charles Dorn offers compelling new insights into more than two centuries of higher education as well as reassurance that the common-good ethos will survive the current wave of corporatization and consumerism."
John R. Thelin, author of A History of American Higher Education:
"Charles Dorn's refreshing analysis is persuasive in showing that higher education for the common good is both central and complex for American colleges and universities in the past, present, and future. Best of all, his book shows how historical research can be readable and pertinent to our policy discussions today."
Joseph F. Kett, James Madison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Virginia, and author of Merit: The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century:
"Charles Dorn knows a great deal about higher education, and For the Common Good covers excellent topics."
Linda Eisenmann, author of Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965:
"In For the Common Good, Charles Dorn demonstrates a rare recognition of how students' own choices impacted—and sometimes shifted—the declared missions of colleges and universities over time."
Joseph F. Kett, James Madison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Virginia, author of Merit: The History of a Founding Ideal from the American Revolution to the Twenty-First Century:
"Charles Dorn knows a great deal about higher educationand For the Common Good covers excellent topics."
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