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A 4 page research paper that discusses the history of higher education in relation to three events. This examination will briefly examine these three events and discuss how they influenced higher education's development. In general, the progression that these three events dramatize a gradual evolution toward offering higher education to an increasing diverse, more numerous segment of the population of a particular era. These three events are the origin of universities in the medieval period; the opening of higher education to women and the implementation of the G.I. Bill after World War II. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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events dramatize a gradual evolution toward offering higher education to an increasing diverse, more numerous segment of the population of a particular era. These three events are the origin of
universities in the medieval period; the opening of higher education to women and the implementation of the G.I. Bill after World War II. Higher education has, of course, been
a part of Western civilization since its ancient beginnings, as Socrates taught the elite of Athenian society. However, as this suggests, such instruction was to very small groups of young
males from affluent families. Therefore, the first major event in the history of higher education is arguably the development of universities that occurred during the Middle Ages. The precise
origins of the medieval university are somewhat obscure, but it is believed that they evolved from older schools. For example, one of the oldest universities, the University of Bologna is
believed to have developed as part of an "eleventh-century center for the study of Roman law" (Rempel, 2007). Similarly, the University of Paris developed from the collection of schools situated
around the Cathedral of Notre Dame (Rempel, 2007). While medieval student populations were entirely male, during this early era, higher education was available to any male whose family could afford
the fees and students came from "all walks of life," but primarily from the "poorer families of knights, or from among townspeople who were ambitious for their children" (Rempel, 2007).
The second event to be discussed is access to higher education by women. Throughout the vast majority of Western history, the academic education of girls and women beyond a
rudimentary level was considered unnecessary and even detrimental society. Women were completed relegated to the domestic sphere and defined by their roles as housewives and mothers. However, by the mid-nineteenth
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