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"Originally published in 1977 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc."
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In The Qualified Student Harold S. Wechsler focuses on methods of student selection used by institutions of higher education in the United States. More specifically, he discusses the way that college and university reformers employed those methods to introduce higher education into a broader cross-section of America, by extending access to an increased number of students from nontraditional backgrounds.
Implicit in much of this book is an underlying social and ethical question: How legitimate was and is higher education's regulation of social mobility? Public concern over colleges' and universities' practices became inevitable once they became regulators between social classes. The challenging of colleges' admissions policies in the courts augments similar concerns that have been present in legislatures for decades.
The volume is divided into three main sections: Prerequisites, Columbia and the Selective Function, and Implications. It focuses mainly on four universities, The University of Michigan, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the City University of New York. Wechsler maintains that unlike other universities, these institutions were pacesetters; they did not adopt a new policy simply because some other college had already adopted it. A new introduction brings the book, originally published in 1977, up to date and demonstrates its continuing importance in today's academic world of selective admissions.
About the Author
Harold S. Wechsler is professor of Jewish education and educational history at New York University and co-directs the PhD program. His books include Jewish Learning in American Universities and Access to Success in the Urban High School.
About the Book
In The Qualified Student Harold S. Wechsler focuses on methods of student selection used by institutions of higher education in the United States. More specifically, he discusses the way that college and university reformers employed those methods to introduce higher education into a broader cross-section of America, by extending access to an increased number of students from nontraditional backgrounds. Implicit in much of this book is an underlying social and ethical question: How legitimate was and is higher education's regulation of social mobility? Public concern over colleges' and universities' practices became inevitable once they became regulators between social classes. The challenging of colleges' admissions policies in the courts augments similar concerns that have been present in legislatures for decades. The volume is divided into three main sections: Prerequisites, Columbia and the Selective Function, and Implications. It focuses mainly on four universities, The University of Michigan, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the City University of New York. Wechsler maintains that unlike other universities, these institutions were pacesetters; they did not adopt a new policy simply because some other college had already adopted it. A new introduction brings the book, originally published in 1977, up to date and demonstrates its continuing importance in today's academic world of selective admissions.
Review Quotes
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"The Qualified Student traces the development of college admission procedures and policies in the United States during the past century. . . . The Qualified Student is a welcome addition to our bookshelf. It gives us the first modern scholarly treatment of its subject. Besides, it holds several extra bonuses for us. Here is the first detailed account of Columbia's oft cited anti-Semitism. It explores and documents the university's resistance towards appointing a Jewish trustee and describes the debates concerning the selction of a Jew to be the Roosevelt Exchange Professor at the University of Berlin. This episode will draw many readers who might not otherwise have picked up a narrative of college admissions. I also found refreshing the view presented of Hutchins's years at Chicago--a view in which, for once, Hutchins does not dominate the foreground. I likewise appreciated what we can learn from Professor Wechsler's research in the Michigan Historical Collections and, I am certain, most readers will be grateful for the succinct review of the events leading to open admissions at CUNY."
--Jurgen Herbst, The Journal of Higher Education
"For many colleges the obvious solution was to institute a policy of selective admissions that employed both academic and nonacademic criteria. In case studies, Wechsler details selective admissions at several institutions, notably Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the City University of New York. In each instance, he says, the university initiated some new twist to selective admissions, the best known perhaps being Columbia's use of the system to limit enrollment of Jewish students in the 1920s. Wechsler does a bit of philosophizing about all this; his chief concern is the degree to which universities are social mobility regulators through their admissions policies."
--Joseph Barbato, Change
"Wechsler's book firmly establishes, at least where Columbia is concerned, a direct linkage between anti-Semitism and the flowering of the university admissions office in its modern form as such. . . . Wechsler deserves credit for having soberly opened a highly sensitive area in the history of our most prestigious univiersities."
--Laurence Veysey, AAUP Bulletin
"What might have been a desiccated record of American college and university admissions practices here becomes a significant social history of innovative politics at the University of Michigan, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the City University of New York. . . . [T]he reader. . . will find here penetrating social history and, even more, prickling and recurring questions well posed about access to higher education in our society."
--Wilson Smith, The American Historical Review
"[M]ost useful. . . for historians of education. . . . Wechsler examines the evolution of selective admissions at four turning points over the last century. . . . The four case studies are very instructive."
--W. Bruce Leslie, History of Education Quarterly
2.
"The Qualified Student traces the development of college admission procedures and policies in the United States during the past century. . . . The Qualified Student is a welcome addition to our bookshelf. It gives us the first modern scholarly treatment of its subject. Besides, it holds several extra bonuses for us. Here is the first detailed account of Columbia's oft cited anti-Semitism. It explores and documents the university's resistance towards appointing a Jewish trustee and describes the debates concerning the selction of a Jew to be the Roosevelt Exchange Professor at the University of Berlin. This episode will draw many readers who might not otherwise have picked up a narrative of college admissions. I also found refreshing the view presented of Hutchins's years at Chicago--a view in which, for once, Hutchins does not dominate the foreground. I likewise appreciated what we can learn from Professor Wechsler's research in the Michigan Historical Collections and, I am certain, most readers will be grateful for the succinct review of the events leading to open admissions at CUNY."
--Jurgen Herbst, The Journal of Higher Education
"For many colleges the obvious solution was to institute a policy of selective admissions that employed both academic and nonacademic criteria. In case studies, Wechsler details selective admissions at several institutions, notably Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the City University of New York. In each instance, he says, the university initiated some new twist to selective admissions, the best known perhaps being Columbia's use of the system to limit enrollment of Jewish students in the 1920s. Wechsler does a bit of philosophizing about all this; his chief concern is the degree to which universities are social mobility regulators through their admissions policies."
--Joseph Barbato, Change
"Wechsler's book firmly establishes, at least where Columbia is concerned, a direct linkage between anti-Semitism and the flowering of the university admissions office in its modern form as such. . . . Wechsler deserves credit for having soberly opened a highly sensitive area in the history of our most prestigious univiersities."
--Laurence Veysey, AAUP Bulletin
"What might have been a desiccated record of American college and university admissions practices here becomes a significant social history of innovative politics at the University of Michigan, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the City University of New York. . . . [T]he reader. . . will find here penetrating social history and, even more, prickling and recurring questions well posed about access to higher education in our society."
--Wilson Smith, The American Historical Review
"[M]ost useful. . . for historians of education. . . . Wechsler examines the evolution of selective admissions at four turning points over the last century. . . . The four case studies are very instructive."
--W. Bruce Leslie, History of Education Quarterly
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