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"During the nineteenth century, nearly ten thousand Americans traveled to Germany to study in universities renowned for their research and teaching. By the mid-twentieth century, American institutions led the world. How did America become the center of higher education excellence? And what does that story reveal about who will lead in the twenty-first century? Allies and Rivals is the first history of the ascent of American higher education told through the lens of German-American exchange. In a series of compelling portraits of such leaders as Wilhelm von Humboldt, Martha Carey Thomas, and W.E.B. Du Bois, Emily J. Levine shows how academic innovators on both sides of the Atlantic competed and collaborated to shape the research university. Even as nations sought world dominance through scholarship, universities retained values apart from politics and economics. Open borders enabled Americans to unite the English college and German PhD to create the modern research university, a hybrid replicated the world over. In a captivating narrative spanning one hundred years Levine upends notions of the university as a timeless ideal, restoring universities to their rightful place in history. In so doing she reveals that innovation in the twentieth century was rooted in international cooperation-a crucial lesson that bears remembering today"--

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This book reveals the powerful patterns of social inequality in American higher education by analyzing how the social background of students shapes nearly every facet of the college experience. Interviews with students from Yale and Southern Connecticut State University highlight how American higher education reinforces the same inequalities it has been aiming to transcend. -- Book Jacket.

378.4 <73> --- 378.18 <73> --- Education, Higher --- -Education, Higher --- -College students --- -Educational equalization --- -Income distribution --- Distribution of income --- Income inequality --- Inequality of income --- Distribution (Economic theory) --- Disposable income --- Educational inequality --- Equal education --- Equal educational opportunity --- Equalization, Educational --- Education --- Affirmative action programs in education --- College life --- College students --- Universities and colleges --- University students --- Students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universiteiten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Social aspects --- -Economic aspects --- -Social networks --- -Cross-cultural studies --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Aims and objectives --- Educational equalization --- Income distribution --- Social networks --- Economic aspects --- 378.18 <73> Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 378.4 <73> Universiteiten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Education [Higher ] --- United States --- Cross-cultural studies