Research On The Postwar University In Usa

With the rapid recovery of the economy, science and culture after World War II, thehigher education has been widely promoted, and then there came a big agitation aboutuniversity construction. Great changes have been taken place in both educationsystem and idiographic mode. With the counter-culture movement, this agitationreached its high point during the 1960s.This paper goes back to a time after WorldWar II, when this educational reformism united with a new social and architecturalimpetus. Several representative university styles are presented here, such asmultiversity, college, cluster college, satellite college, and community college.Meanwhile, this paper tries to get some illuminations for the university constructionin China today.There are five chapters in this paper:In the first chapter, the paper presents the history and background in the USA afterWorld War II.In the second chapter, the paper presents several representative university stylesof the postwar American.In the third chapter, the paper generalizes the reformation of the postwar university inAmerica.In the fourth chapter, the paper studies the practice of university construction of thepostwaruniversity in America.In the fifth chapter, the paper analyzes the characteristics in recent campus planningand construction in China, and tell the illuminations for the university constructioninChina today.