History of Higher Education Annual: 2003-2004

by Torcuato Di Tella

History of Higher Education Annual, Volume 23 provides insight into the struggle for civil rights and desegregation of Southern higher education, illuminating how this conflict affected private, historically black colleges and white denominational colleges, while interpreting the dynamics of segregation and desegregation in South Carolina. Other contributions examine town-gown relations for Harvard students in the eighteenth century and the challenge of creating an urban public university in Chicago. Review essays examine the demographic and cultural transformation of British higher education and the curious phenomenon of historical encyclopedias of individual colleges and universities. History of Higher Education Annual will be of interest to historians, sociologists, educational policymakers as well as those concerned with the future of higher education in the United States and throughout the world. Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at the Pennsylvania State University. He has edited the History of Higher Education Annual since 1993. His two volumes Research and Relevant Knowledge and To Advance Knowledge (both published by Transaction) cover the history of universities in the United States during the twentieth century.

180 pages, Hardcover

Published July 26, 2017

About the author

Torcuato Salvador Francisco Nicolás Di Tella, también conocido como Torcuato Di Tella Hijo, fue un ingeniero y sociólogo argentino. Hijo del ingeniero italiano, Torcuato Di Tella y junto con su hermano, Guido Di Tella, fundadores del instituto universitario epónimo a su padre. Ocupó el cargo de Secretario de Cultura de la Nación desde el 25 de mayo de 2003 hasta su renuncia el 25 de noviembre de 2004. Fue nombrado en 2010 como Embajador Argentino en Italia, cargo que ocupó hasta el momento de su muerte.
Ganó dos veces el premio Konex: en 1986 por sus trabajos en Sociología. En aquella fundación fue, más tarde, en 1996 jurado por Humanidades para aquel premio.1​