Distinguished by their sharp insights, eloquence, even humor,
the writings of Martin Trow on the development of higher education
have helped define the field. Collected here are his most
influential essays, tracing the arc and evolution of his prolific
scholarly career over more than four decades.
Trow is well known for his pioneering work on the transition
from elite to mass to universal higher education, and scholars
worldwide continue to use his conceptual framework for analyzing
and comparing institutions.
As both a sociologist and a public policy analyst, Trow hoped
his analyses of higher education would help influence public
policy. He believed that understanding how higher education had
developed--its peculiarities in a particular society and the
direction of change within it--would lead to wiser policy
choices.
Martin Trow began compiling this collection before his death in
2007. Editor Michael Burrage, along with Trow's friends and
colleagues, worked to carry out Trow's wishes, writing
introductions to the essays which situate them in their context and
which continue each contributor's conversations with Trow during
his lifetime.
Those seriously interested in the emergence of mass higher
education, and the debates surrounding it, will appreciate finding
many of Trow's groundbreaking works--including three articles never
before published--in a single volume.
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