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- Title
An Academic Gresham's Law: Group Repulsion as a Theme in American Higher Education.
- Authors
Wechsler, Harold S.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the problem of group repulsion in the U.S. higher education. The arrival of a new constituency on a college campus has rarely been an occasion for unmitigated joy. Perhaps such students brought with them much-needed tuition dollars. In that case, their presence was accepted and tolerated. Yet higher-education officials, and often students from traditional constituencies, usually perceived the arrival of new groups not as a time for rejoicing, but as a problem, a threat to an institution's stated and unstated missions, official fear, or to its social life, student fear. Most recently, America has witnessed dramas played out between black students and white students and officials, as the former attempted to obtain access to higher education, first in the South and then in the North. The court case Brown v. Board of Education and its subsequent application to higher education have resulted in only a gradual effort at integration in the South, and then only after almost a decade of outright resistance.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HIGHER education; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; BROWN v. Board of Education of Topeka; BLACK students; STUDENT activism
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1981, Vol 82, Issue 4, p567
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818108200401