Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia is a two-volume reference work covering the people, institutions, legislation, and controversies that have shaped American higher education, with an emphasis on developments since World War II.
Citation
| Title | Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia |
|---|---|
| Editors | James J. F. Forest and Kevin Kinser |
| Publisher | ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA |
| Published | 2002 |
| Format | 2 volumes, approximately 800 pages |
| ISBN | 1-57607-248-7 |
Suggested citation: Forest, James J. F., and Kevin Kinser, eds. 2002. Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia (2 volumes). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Scope
The encyclopedia was designed to cover the full range of topics in U.S. higher education for readers ranging from undergraduates researching a paper to faculty and policymakers looking for concise background on a specific issue. Entries run from roughly 300 to 4,000 words, contributed and signed by individual scholars, and cover institutions, legislation, historical figures, and ongoing debates in the field.
Sample entries hosted on this site
The full encyclopedia is available only in print and through library holdings. Two sample entries are hosted here as PDFs, reproduced with the scope and citation the original publication intended:
These entries are reproduced under the rights granted to the original site publisher and remain the copyright of ABC-CLIO. They are hosted here as PDF documents rather than reformatted as web pages.
Finding the full work
The complete two-volume encyclopedia is not distributed on this site. It can be located through a library catalog by ISBN (1-57607-248-7) or through a bookseller. This page previously linked to contemporaneous 2002 reviews and an ABC-CLIO product page; those pages and the outlets that hosted them are no longer online, and one of the original review links now resolves to an unrelated site after a domain change, so the links have been removed rather than pointed at content this project cannot verify.