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Cengage What is the Future of Higher Education? 2015 Edition by Greenhaven Press, Roman Espejo
At Issue: What Is the Future of Higher Education? explores a range of topics including what role online education will play and how private and community colleges will function in the future. This volume addresses the rising costs of college and if it sho; These books provide a range of opinions on a social issue; each volume focuses on a specific issue and offers a variety of perspectives, e.g., eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper accounts, to illuminate the issue.; Greenhaven Press's At Issue series provides a wide range of opinions on individual social issues. Enhancing critical thinking skills, each At Issue volume is an excellent research tool to help readers understand current social issues and prepare reports. Table of contents :- Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Dissent and America 1 1. The "Free Aire of a New World" 17 2. Dissent in an Age of Reason 34 3. Revolution 57 4. Discord in the New Republic 79 5. Slavery and Its Discontents 108 6. Reformers and Dissidents 133 7. Expansion and Conflict 159 8. Dissent Imperils the Union 173 9. A Nation Divides 191 10. Liberation and Suppression 213 11. Protest and Conflict in the West 234 12. Workers of the World Unite! 256 13. The New Manifest Destiny 275 14. Progressives and Radicals 294 15. Making the World Safe for Democracy 327 16. Traditionalism Collides with Modernism 349 17. A New Deal for America 371 18. The Good War? 393 19. Dissent in an Age of Conformity 407 viii k Contents 20. Civil Rights: An American Revolution 424 21. Make Love, Not War 453 22. Mobilization and Backlash 482 23. A New Age of Dissent 501 Conclusion: The Arc of Dissent 520 Notes 523 Bibliography 549 Index 583 About the Author 603