Higher Education for American Democracy: Vol. I, Establishing the Goals
Report, Charts
By: President's Commission on Higher Education
Date: 1947
Source: President's Commission on Higher Education. Higher Education for American Democracy: Vol. I, Establishing the Goals. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1947. Reprinted in American Higher Education: A Documentary History. Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961, 984–86.
About the Organization: President Harry S. Truman (served 1945–1953) appointed his Commission on Higher Education in the summer of 1946. It was composed of twenty-eight educators and laymen and headed by George F. Zook, the president of the American Council on Education. The president asked the commission to "re-examine our system of higher education in terms of its objectives, methods, and facilities; and in the light of the social role it has to play."
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