Power, Discourse, and the Purpose of Policy in Higher Education

This book traces the full history of the Higher Education Act of 1965 in its entirety, to the present. The fifty-six-year history of this landmark legislation is analyzed as a genealogical phenomenon through multiple methodological and theoretical frameworks. This allows the researcher to study the Act not in a linear or single approach, rather the blend of lenses and methods creates a means to study policy-making as a site of ideological reproduction and results in the exposure of power dynamics that obfuscate the hidden agenda by those in positions of power.

First book to trace the full history of the higher education act of 1965 to the present day Employs the methodological framework of policy genealogy and the discourse historical approach Includes analysis of congressional records, testimony, interviews, and a multitude of other data

Auteur

Allison L. Palmadessa is Professor of History at Greensboro College, USA. She is also the author of Higher Education Divided (2020) and American National Identity, Policy Paradigms, and Higher Education (2017).

Contenu

Chapter 1. Introduction to the Study.- Chapter 2. Establishing the Need for Higher Education Legislation, 1945 to 1965.- Chapter 3. Presidential Directives and Congressional Negotiations: The Higher Education Act of 1965.- Chapter 4. Reauthorization in Times of Crisis, 1968 to 1976.- Chapter 5. Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act for A Nation at Risk in the 1980s.- Chapter 6. Preparing for Challenge and Seeking Change: Reauthorizations in the 1990s.- Chapter 7. Higher Education Access, Neoliberalism, and an Uncertain Future: Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act in the 21st Century.- Chapter 8. The Future of the Relationship between the Federal Government and Higher Education.