Description: This profound history of the limits on college access over decades of discrimination will help readers recognize and understand the central role of race in the history of American higher education.
Brief description: Steven J. Diner (NEW YORK, NY) is a University Professor at Rutgers University-Newark, where he served as chancellor from 2002 to 2011. He is the author of A City and Its Universities: Public Policy in Chicago, 1892-1919, and Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America.