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.
