His recent scholarship includes book chapters on faculty and graduate assistant unionization, public sector labor history, and geoprivacy in digital cities. He is also a Faculty Associate at the Roosevelt House Institute of Public Policy. Herbert is a Distinguished Lecturer and Executive Director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College. Snyder, and Freedoms’ Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s. His books include Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s, co-edited with David J.

His scholarship focuses on politics, higher education, and social protest in 20 thcentury America. Robert Cohen is a professor of history and social studies in NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. It should be read by everyone in-or concerned about-the state of our embattled colleges and universities.”Īnd according to Noam Chomsky, “Ellen Schrecker’s careful and enlightening account of the universities in the ‘long sixties’ unravels many of the complexities of these turbulent years and their dramatic impact on American society and culture.” The Lost Promise provides peerless illumination of the era that so shaped our own.

Roosevelt House is pleased to present a special panel discussion on Ellen Schrecker’s new book The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s, co-presented by the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.ĭeeply researched and powerfully written, The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s delivers a sweeping account of the dissent that took place at colleges and universities over civil rights and the Vietnam War-with a unique focus on the complex roles played by professors and students, and the ongoing impact those battles have had on higher education.Īs recent Roosevelt House guest the author Nancy MacLean put it: “In this monumental and gripping work, Schrecker shows that to understand the challenges facing higher education today we must grasp the nettle of the 1960s.

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