Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables Preface PART ONE. A CITY UPON A HILL: CLARK KERR AND THE CALIFORNIA IDEA OF HIGHER EDUCATION 1. An Extraordinary Time 2. Clark Kerr 3. Clark Kerr and the California Idea 4. The Uses of the University 5. Martin Trow: Higher Education and Its Growth 6. Bob Clark: The Academic Heartland 7. Whither the California Idea of Higher Education? PART TWO. CROSSING THE WATERS: THE CALIFORNIA IDEA IN THE WORLD 8. The Idea Spreads 9. Participation without Limit 10. The Spread of Science 11. The Global Multiversity 12. Systems and Stratification 13. American Universities in the Global Space 14. Enter the Dragon 96 15. Higher Education in China and the United States PART THREE. BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME: THE CALIFORNIA IDEA IN A MORE UNEQUAL AMERICA 16. Higher Education after Clark Kerr 17. The Impossibility of Public Good 18. The Impossibility of Taxation 19. Economic and Social Inequality 20. Unequal Opportunity 21. Higher Education and the Economy 22. Higher Education and Society Epilogue: After the Dream Notes References Index

About the Author

Simon Marginson is Professor of International Higher Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, and Director of the ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education. He is also joint editor of the journal Higher Education.

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