A People S University

Author : Bruce B. Henderson
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1933371102

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Teaching at the People's University by Bruce B. Henderson Pdf

Among the many different kinds of institutes of higher education, those known as state comprehensive universities (SCUs) have traditionally been the most neglected and stigmatized in comparison to traditional liberal arts and research universities and colleges. However, these institutions, many with historical roots in normal schools and state teachers colleges, have graduated a high percentage of students each year. Morevover, SCUs have been willing to provide practical, job-oriented degrees in many fields from education to the health sciences. In many ways, it is these universities that have made college degrees available to the masses—they have been and are the people's universities. A high and increasing percentage of America's college professors and administrators work at SCUs, yet there are no available resources specifically for newly hired faculty at these institutions, which have characteristics unique from the major research universities where many faculty obtained their graduate educations. This book introduces the newcomer to the state comprehensive university and how working there is similar and different from working at other institutions of higher education. Based on the author’s 30 of years teaching at SCUs, this book is a guide to a different culture. It discusses the particular aspects and special problems faculty encounter at SCUs: the differences in student body, size, funding, and student selection and retention rate. It reveals the benefit of working in an environment that emphasizes teaching over research, and dispels some of the negative and misleading assumptions about academic life at SCUs, helping new faculty avoid role conflict and adapt their expectations to forge rewarding careers that benefit their students and their institutions.

Author : Jacob Gould Schurman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : UOM:39015063585213

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A People's University by Jacob Gould Schurman Pdf

Author : Scott M. Gelber
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780299284633

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The University and the People by Scott M. Gelber Pdf

The University and the People chronicles the influence of Populism—a powerful agrarian movement—on public higher education in the late nineteenth century. Revisiting this pivotal era in the history of the American state university, Scott Gelber demonstrates that Populists expressed a surprising degree of enthusiasm for institutions of higher learning. More fundamentally, he argues that the mission of the state university, as we understand it today, evolved from a fractious but productive relationship between public demands and academic authority. Populists attacked a variety of elites—professionals, executives, scholars—and seemed to confirm academia’s fear of anti-intellectual public oversight. The movement’s vision of the state university highlighted deep tensions in American attitudes toward meritocracy and expertise. Yet Populists also promoted state-supported higher education, with the aims of educating the sons (and sometimes daughters) of ordinary citizens, blurring status distinctions, and promoting civic engagement. Accessibility, utilitarianism, and public service were the bywords of Populist journalists, legislators, trustees, and sympathetic professors. These “academic populists” encouraged state universities to reckon with egalitarian perspectives on admissions, financial aid, curricula, and research. And despite their critiques of college “ivory towers,” Populists supported the humanities and social sciences, tolerated a degree of ideological dissent, and lobbied for record-breaking appropriations for state institutions.

Author : Fred Anderson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838280

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A People's Army by Fred Anderson Pdf

A People's Army documents the many distinctions between British regulars and Massachusetts provincial troops during the Seven Years' War. Originally published by UNC Press in 1984, the book was the first investigation of colonial military life to give equal attention to official records and to the diaries and other writings of the common soldier. The provincials' own accounts of their experiences in the campaign amplify statistical profiles that define the men, both as civilians and as soldiers. These writings reveal in intimate detail their misadventures, the drudgery of soldiering, the imminence of death, and the providential world view that helped reconcile them to their condition and to the war.

Author : Donald R. Gerth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : UCSD:31822038159257

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The People's University by Donald R. Gerth Pdf

Author : Lawrence A. Landis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 0870718223

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A School for the People by Lawrence A. Landis Pdf

A School for the People tells the story of OSU's nearly 150 years as a land grant institution through more than 500 photographs, maps, documents, and extensive captions. A capsule history includes many of the iconic photographs associated with the university. Other chapters focus on themes such as campus development, the growth of academics, the evolution of research as a major focus of the university, campus life and organizations, and, of course, athletics. As one of the first colleges and universities to offer photography as part of its curriculum in the early 1890s, OSU is well documented visually. Most of those photographic treasures have made their way into the holdings of the Special Collections & Archives Research Center at OSU's Valley Library. Gleaned from hundreds of thousands of images at the Center, many of the photos included here have never before been seen by the general public. Several were scanned from the original glass and film negatives and color transparencies to ensure the highest-quality reproductions. Written by a longtime archivist at OSU's Special Collections & Archives Research Center, A School for the People does not obscure the inevitable ups and downs of the institution with the manicured gloss of recruitment brochures, but aims to tell the full, dynamic story of this multi-faceted and living university. Overflowing with visual riches, it will appeal to OSU alumni, faculty and staff, and anyone with an interest in the history of higher education in Oregon or land grant institutions generally.

Author : Monika Seidl,Roman Horak,Lawrence Grossberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135263072

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About Raymond Williams by Monika Seidl,Roman Horak,Lawrence Grossberg Pdf

About Raymond Williams represents the overdue critical acclaim of Williams’ lasting influence and unbroken repercussions in critical thought. His writings have effectively shaped the ways in which people understand the complexity of the notion of 'culture' and many of the ways it has been taken up in scholarly practice.

Author : Ingrid Miethe,Tim Kaiser,Tobias Kriele,Alexandra Piepiorka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110601879

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Globalization of an Educational Idea by Ingrid Miethe,Tim Kaiser,Tobias Kriele,Alexandra Piepiorka Pdf

In this book, authors showcase the worldwide spread of Workers’ Faculties as an example of both cooperation between socialist countries in education, and globalization processes in the field of education. Based on extensive research carried out in Cuban, German, Mozambican, and Vietnamese archives as well as expert interviews, it combines detailed case studies of educational transfers and policy implementation with a discussion of theoretical approaches to the study of globalization in and of education.Research on Workers’ Faculties provides an especially interesting example for the study of educational transfer between socialist countries as well as for the interplay of such transfers with processes of globalisation for two reasons. On one hand, the first Workers’ Faculties were established already shortly after the October Revolution in Russia, and Workers’ Faculties continue to exist in Cuba until today. A study of these institutions therefore provides a dynamic perspective covering the whole period of the existence of the socialist camp. On the other hand, the spread of the Workers’ Faculty idea to four continents allows for an analysis that takes into account widely differing local contexts.This book offers an analysis of general trends and particularities in the history of the global spread of the Workers’ Faculty idea and its implementation in local contexts. Finally, it discusses the results with a view towards theories of globalization in the field of education as well as of specificities of processes of “socialist globalization”.

Author : M. Esperanza
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Information science
ISBN : 8170225426

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Library and Information Science by M. Esperanza Pdf

Author : Cy Gonick
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459411142

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Canada Since 1960: A People's History by Cy Gonick Pdf

When Winnipeg's Cy Gonick started the magazine Canadian Dimension in 1963 to provide a home for the thinking and analysis of mostly young leftists engaged in Canadian economic, social, cultural, artistic and political issues, he had no grand plan. But Canadian Dimension was welcomed by intellectuals, scholars and students, and it proved enduring. Hundreds of Canada's leading figures of the left have contributed to its pages over the years, writing about every major topic in Canadian public life. This book offers an account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the sixties until today, as seen and interpreted by scholars and writers on the pages of Dimension. Each chapter reviews a major theme, such as Canada's relationship to the U.S., the development of our health care system, the dynamics of Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal relations and the role of Canadian cultural work in shaping Canadian society. Taken together, the book provides a unique and broad perspective on virtually every significant event and development in recent Canadian history. Readers who know the magazine will find this book a compelling summary of how Canada changed in the past five decades, and how the Left saw those changes and challenged them. Readers who discover Canadian Dimension through this book will find a multitude of compelling voices who challenge the dominant neoliberal thinking of mainstream Canadian intellectual life. The twenty-seven contributors, from every part of the country are Greg Albo, Brenda Austin Smith, Chris Bailey, Evan Bowness, Mordecai Briemburg, Elizabeth Comack, Angela Day, Bryan Evans, Alvin Finkel, Peter Graefe, Judy Haiven, Larry Haiven, Trevor Harrison, Henry Heller, David Hugill, Peter Kulchyski, Andrea Levy, James McCorrie, James Naylor, Bryan Palmer, Denis Pilon, Joe Roberts, Stephanie Ross, Arthur Schafer, Frank Tester, John Warnock and Chris Webb.

Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Education
ISBN : CORNELL:31924061141119

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Bulletin by United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : Heather Devine
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381151

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The People who Own Themselves by Heather Devine Pdf

With a unique how-to appendix for Metis genealogical reconstruction, this book will be of interest to Metis wanting to research their own genealogy and to scholars engaged in the reconstruction of Metis ethnic identity. The search for a Metis identity and what constitutes that identity is a key issue facing many aboriginals of mixed ancestry today. This book reconstructs 250 years of the Desjarlais' family history across a substantial area of North America, from colonial Louisiana, the St. Louis, Missouri, region and the American Southwest to the Red River and central Alberta. In the course of tracing the Desjarlais family, social, economic and political factors influencing the development of various Aboriginal ethnic identities are discussed. With intriguing details about the Desjarlais family members, this book offers new, original insights into the 1885 Northwest Rebellion, focusing on kinship as a motivating factor in the outcome of events.

Author : Alain Badiou,Judith Butler,Georges Didi-Huberman,Sadri Khiari,Jacques Rancière,Pierre Bourdieu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231541718

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What Is a People? by Alain Badiou,Judith Butler,Georges Didi-Huberman,Sadri Khiari,Jacques Rancière,Pierre Bourdieu Pdf

What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its transformation of democracy, beliefs, songs, and even soups into phenomena with outsized importance. Judith Butler calls out those who use freedom of assembly to create an exclusionary "we," while Georges Didi-Huberman addresses the problem of summing up a people with totalizing narratives. Sadri Khiari applies an activist's perspective to the racial hierarchies inherent in ethnic and national categories, and Jacques Rancière comments on the futility of isolating theories of populism when, as these thinkers have shown, the idea of a "people" is too diffuse to support them. By engaging this topic linguistically, ethnically, culturally, and ontologically, the voices in this volume help separate "people" from its fraught associations to pursue more vital formulations. Together with Democracy in What State?, in which Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj i ek discuss the nature and purpose of democracy today, What Is a People? expands an essential exploration of political action and being in our time.

Author : Peter MacKInnon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442669796

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University Leadership and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century by Peter MacKInnon Pdf

Canadian universities face a complicated and uncertain future when it comes to funding, governance, and fostering innovation. Their leaders face an equally complicated future, attempting to balance the needs and desires of students, faculty, governments, and the economy. Drawing on more than a decade of service as president of one of Canada’s major research universities, Peter MacKinnon offers an insider’s perspective on the challenges involved in bringing those constituencies together in the pursuit of excellence. Clear, contentious, and uncompromising, University Leadership and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century offers a unique and timely analysis of the key policy issues affecting Canada’s university sector. Covering topics such as strategic planning, tuition policy, labour relations, and governance, MacKinnon draws on his experience leading the University of Saskatchewan to argue that Canadian universities must embrace competitiveness and change if they are to succeed in the global race for talent.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HX7DT6

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National University by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education Pdf