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Setting the Nation's Agenda for Higher Education: A Review of Selected National Commission Reports, 1947–2006

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Philo A. Hutcheson
Philo A. Hutcheson*
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Educational Policy Studies Department at Georgia State University
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 47 , Issue 3: Special Issue on the History of Access to American Higher Education Commemorating the Sixtieth Anniversary of Higher Education for American Democracy—The Report of the President's Commission on Higher Education , August 2007 , pp. 359 - 367
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1 President's Commission on Higher Education, Higher Education for American Democracy (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947), vol. 2, 26.Google Scholar

2 On the substantial response to the 1947 President's Commission, see Hutcheson, Philo A., “The 1947 President's Commission on Higher Education and the National Rhetoric on Higher Education Policy,” History of Higher Education Annual 2002 22 (2003): 91-107.Google Scholar

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