Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America

by Steven J. Diner

Book Overview

The first broad survey of the history of urban higher education in America.

Today, a majority of American college students attend school in cities. But throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries, urban colleges and universities faced deep hostility from writers, intellectuals, government officials, and educators who were concerned about the impact of cities, immigrants, and commuter students on college education...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421422417
• ISBN13: 9781421422411
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"