Assumptions About Higher Education and the American Dream

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Nancy Kendall ◽  
Denise Goerisch ◽  
Esther C. Kim ◽  
Franklin Vernon ◽  
Matthew Wolfgram
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
American Dream

A Discussion of Suzanne Mettler’s Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 486-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Science ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Education Politics ◽  
University Leaders

The discipline of political science in the United States evolved in tandem with the development of democratic education and the modern university system. Since the early years of the twentieth century, political science has been an academic discipline housed in universities and colleges, and most political scientists earn their living as university or college teachers. And yet as individual academics or as a discipline, we rarely stand back from our institutional environment and ask hard questions about what is happening with higher education and what this means for the practice of political science. Suzanne Mettler does precisely this in Degrees of Inequality: How Higher Education Politics Sabotaged the American Dream. And so we have invited a range of political science scholars, many with extensive experience as university leaders, to comment on her book and its implications for the future of political science.

A Discussion of Suzanne Mettler’s Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 492-493
Author(s):  
Paula D. McClain
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Science ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Education Politics ◽  
University Leaders

The discipline of political science in the United States evolved in tandem with the development of democratic education and the modern university system. Since the early years of the twentieth century, political science has been an academic discipline housed in universities and colleges, and most political scientists earn their living as university or college teachers. And yet as individual academics or as a discipline, we rarely stand back from our institutional environment and ask hard questions about what is happening with higher education and what this means for the practice of political science. Suzanne Mettler does precisely this in Degrees of Inequality: How Higher Education Politics Sabotaged the American Dream. And so we have invited a range of political science scholars, many with extensive experience as university leaders, to comment on her book and its implications for the future of political science.

A Discussion of Suzanne Mettler’s Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 490-491
Author(s):  
Romand Coles
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Science ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Education Politics ◽  
University Leaders

The discipline of political science in the United States evolved in tandem with the development of democratic education and the modern university system. Since the early years of the twentieth century, political science has been an academic discipline housed in universities and colleges, and most political scientists earn their living as university or college teachers. And yet as individual academics or as a discipline, we rarely stand back from our institutional environment and ask hard questions about what is happening with higher education and what this means for the practice of political science. Suzanne Mettler does precisely this in Degrees of Inequality: How Higher Education Politics Sabotaged the American Dream. And so we have invited a range of political science scholars, many with extensive experience as university leaders, to comment on her book and its implications for the future of political science.

The Myth of the American Dream

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Rebecca Bloom ◽  
Danielle Cooperstock ◽  
Gianna Chacon ◽  
Jane Whitford ◽  
Molly Bernard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
American Dream ◽  
School Experiences ◽  
Student Debt ◽  
High School Experiences ◽  
Readers Theater ◽  
Low Incomes ◽  
And Gender

This article presents the script of “The Myth of the American Dream,” a readers theater researched, written, and presented by students in a women's and gender studies class called “Women, Social Class, and Social Policy.” The script illustrates six diverse respondents’ perspectives on how family backgrounds, intersectional identities, and high school experiences influenced college access and experiences, student debt, and current circumstances. The script poses the question: Does higher education, especially for students raised in low incomes, help achieve the American Dream? The article concludes with a reflection on this readers theater and why Bloom includes readers theater projects in her undergraduate classes.

A Discussion of Suzanne Mettler’s Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 494-495
Author(s):  
Timothy Kaufman-Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Science ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Education Politics ◽  
University Leaders

The discipline of political science in the United States evolved in tandem with the development of democratic education and the modern university system. Since the early years of the twentieth century, political science has been an academic discipline housed in universities and colleges, and most political scientists earn their living as university or college teachers. And yet as individual academics or as a discipline, we rarely stand back from our institutional environment and ask hard questions about what is happening with higher education and what this means for the practice of political science. Suzanne Mettler does precisely this in Degrees of Inequality: How Higher Education Politics Sabotaged the American Dream. And so we have invited a range of political science scholars, many with extensive experience as university leaders, to comment on her book and its implications for the future of political science.

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