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Reforging American public higher education: how California dreaming could become a reality once more

By Blog Editor, IOE Digital, on 26 October 2016

Simon Marginson.
Modern higher education began in the United States in the 1960s. Participation grew rapidly in the world’s first mass higher education system, federal grants underpinned a remarkable growth in research, and the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California established a template for system design that was to shape developments across the world. (more…)