Land Grant Colleges And Popular Revolt

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781501709739

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Author : Roger L. Geiger,Nathan M. Sorber
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412851473

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The Land-Grant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education by Roger L. Geiger,Nathan M. Sorber Pdf

This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of America's land-grant colleges and universities, created by the most important piece of legislation in higher education. The story is divided into five parts that provide closer examinations of representative developments. Part I describes the connection between agricultural research and American colleges. Part II shows that the responsibility of defining and implementing the land-grant act fell to the states, which produced a variety of institutions in the nineteenth century. Part III details the first phase of the conflict during the latter decades of the nineteenth century about whether land colleges were intended to be agricultural colleges, or full academic institutions. Part IV focuses on the fact that full-fledged universities became dominant institutions of American higher education. The final part shows that the land-grant mission is alive and well in university colleges of agriculture and, in fact, is inherent to their identity. Including some of the best minds the field has to offer, this volume follows in the fine tradition of past books in Transaction's Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series.

Author : Nathan, M. Sorber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000190540

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Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities by Nathan, M. Sorber Pdf

Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities explores major ideas which have shaped the history and development of higher education in North America and considers how these inform contemporary innovations in the sector. Chapters address intellectual, organizational, social, and political movements which occurred across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and have impacted the policies, scholarship, and practices enacted at a variety of public and private institutions throughout the United States. Topics addressed include the politics of racial segregation, the place of religion in Higher Education, and models of leadership. Through rigorous historical analyses of education reform cases, this text puts forward useful lessons on how colleges and universities have navigated change in the past, and may do so in the future. This text will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of Higher Education, administration and leadership, as well as the history of education and educational reform.

Author : Stephen M. Gavazzi,E. Gordon Gee
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421426853

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Land-Grant Universities for the Future by Stephen M. Gavazzi,E. Gordon Gee Pdf

This book should be of great interest to faculty members and students, as well as those parents, legislators, policymakers, and other area stakeholders who have a vested interest in the well-being of America’s original public universities.

Author : Thomas Adam
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498588447

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The History of College Affordability in the United States from Colonial Times to the Cold War by Thomas Adam Pdf

This book examines how tuition and student loans became an accepted part of college costs in the first half of the twentieth century. The author argues that college was largely free to nineteenth-century college students since local and religious communities, donors, and the state agreed to pay the tuition bill with the expectation that the students would serve society upon graduation. College education was essentially considered a public good. This arrangement ended after 1900. The increasing secularization and professionalization of college education as well as changes in the socio-economic composition of the student body—which included more and more students from well-off families—caused educators, college administrators, and donors to argue that students pursued a college degree for their own advancement and therefore should be made to pay for it. Students were expected to pay tuition themselves and to take out student loans in order to fund their education.

Author : Peter Woan
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781665744799

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FIGHT SONG by Peter Woan Pdf

Every nation’s past is prologue to its present, and every nation’s story unfolds in its own way. In this book, a native Englishman and long-time resident of the United States, proposes four defining narratives that have helped fashion the nation’s progression toward “becoming America.” • westward expansion, and a fascination for the moving frontier; • hunger for land, reflected in national expansion through nineteenth-century geopolitical acquisitions, and the desire of individual Americans to grab their own piece of territory, leading to the iconic Homestead Act of 1862; • the land-grant college movement, culminating in Justin Morrill’s 1862 landmark legislation, representing a shift away from higher education dominated by religious imperatives to a more secular model, with significant state sponsorship; • the GI Bill of Rights, enacted in 1944 for servicemen and women returning from WW II, and which provided (among other benefits) a free college education for millions of veterans. These four themes are brought together through the uniquely American phenomenon of college football.

Author : Attila Varga,Katalin Erdős
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781784715717

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Handbook of Universities and Regional Development by Attila Varga,Katalin Erdős Pdf

The Handbook on Universities and Regional Development offers a comprehensive and up-to-date insight into how academic institutions spur their surroundings. The volume sheds light on universities as regional development actors from a historical perspective by introducing institutional changes and discussing the interrelatedness of society, business and academia. It provides detailed investigations on various knowledge transfer mechanisms to help understand the diverse ways through which ideas and intellectual property can flow between universities and businesses. Detailed case studies from three continents (Europe, Asia, and America) demonstrate the highly contextual nature of the interactions between academia, industry and government.

Author : Deborah L. Morowski,Lynn M. Burlbaw
Publisher : IAP
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798887305462

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Reflections on People, Policy, and Practices in Curriculum History by Deborah L. Morowski,Lynn M. Burlbaw Pdf

America’s schools are constantly in the news today for safety concerns, contested curricula, teacher quality, test scores, and a variety of other topics. Although most people spend at least 12 years in school systems, they know little of the history or evolution of American schooling. The collection of papers assembled in this book are divided into three categories which greatly impacted American schooling: people, policy, and practices. This work seeks to shed light on what has occurred in curriculum history in the past so as to help readers develop a deeper understanding of how our system of schooling arrived at its current state. The first section of the book examines the stories of people who had an influence on schooling and education. The second section focuses on the curricula and programs that were utilized in schools and districts throughout the country. The final chapter of the book looks at decisions that had long-ranging impact on educational policies. The chapters of this book offer a glimpse into the history of American schooling and those people, policies, and practices that influenced its development. It is the editors’ hope that the work will spark interest in scholars and students of educational history to examine other past, as well as present, stories of educators to expand our understanding of the saga that is the American schooling experience.

Author : Ronald J. Daniels,Grant Shreve,Phillip Spector
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421442693

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What Universities Owe Democracy by Ronald J. Daniels,Grant Shreve,Phillip Spector Pdf

Introduction -- American dreams : access, mobility, fairness -- Free minds : educating democratic citizens -- Hard facts : knowledge creation and checking power -- Purposeful pluralism : dialogue across difference on campus -- Conclusion.

Author : Adam R. Nelson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226829210

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Capital of Mind by Adam R. Nelson Pdf

The second volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Capital of Mind is the second volume in a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Picking up from the first volume, Exchange of Ideas, Adam R. Nelson looks at the early decades of the nineteenth century, explaining how the idea of the modern university arose from a set of institutional and ideological reforms designed to foster the mass production and mass consumption of knowledge. This “industrialization of ideas” mirrored the industrialization of the American economy and catered to the demands of a new industrial middle class for practical and professional education. From Harvard in the north to the University of Virginia in the south, new experiments with the idea of a university elicited intense debate about the role of scholarship in national development and international competition, and whether higher education should be supported by public funds, especially in periods of fiscal austerity. The history of capitalism and the history of the university, Nelson reveals, are intimately intertwined—which raises a host of important questions that remain salient today. How do we understand knowledge and education as commercial goods? Should they be public or private? Who should pay for them? And, fundamentally, what is the optimal system of higher education for a capitalist democracy?

Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496235633

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Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815–1900 by R. Douglas Hurt Pdf

After the War of 1812 and the removal of the region’s Indigenous peoples, the American Midwest became a paradoxical land for settlers. Even as many settlers found that the region provided the bountiful life of their dreams, others found disappointment, even failure—and still others suffered social and racial prejudice. In this broad and authoritative survey of midwestern agriculture from the War of 1812 to the turn of the twentieth century, R. Douglas Hurt contends that this region proved to be the country’s garden spot and the nation’s heart of agricultural production. During these eighty-five years the region transformed from a sparsely settled area to the home of large industrial and commercial cities, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit. Still, it remained primarily an agricultural region that promised a better life for many of the people who acquired land, raised crops and livestock, provided for their families, adopted new technologies, and sought political reform to benefit their economic interests. Focusing on the history of midwestern agriculture during wartime, utopian isolation, and colonization as well as political unrest, Hurt contextualizes myriad facets of the region’s past to show how agricultural life developed for midwestern farmers—and to reflect on what that meant for the region and nation.

Author : Glenn Hubbard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300263046

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The Wall and the Bridge by Glenn Hubbard Pdf

An informed argument for an economic policy based on bridges of preparation and adaptation rather than walls of protection and exclusion “When technological change and globalization in recent decades brought frustration over the resulting losses to jobs and communities, there were no guardrails to get these workers back on track. As this compelling book shows, our nation is going to need bridges to help people get through the unavoidable transformations.”—Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics and author of Mass Flourishing Free-market economists often have noted that there are winners and losers in a competitive capitalist world. The question of how to deal with the difficult real-life consequences faced by the losers, however, has largely been ignored. Populist politicians have tried repeatedly to address the issue by creating walls—of both the physical and economic kinds—to insulate communities and keep competition at bay. While recognizing the broad emotional appeal of walls, economist Glenn Hubbard argues that because they delay needed adaptations to the ever-changing world, walls are essentially backward-looking and ultimately destined to fail. Taking Adam Smith’s logic to Youngstown, Ohio, as a case study in economic disruption, Hubbard promotes the benefits of an open economy and creating bridges to support people in turbulent times so that they remain engaged and prepared to participate in, and reap the rewards of, a new economic landscape.

Author : Edna B. Chun,Joe R. Feagin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000426250

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Who Killed Higher Education? by Edna B. Chun,Joe R. Feagin Pdf

Who Killed Higher Education?: Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era offers a probing and unvarnished look at the causes of the substantial state defunding of public higher education over the last six decades. With the pandemic and cuts to social services, these challenges have only deepened, especially creating real dilemmas for first-generation, minoritized students seeking to complete a college education. Through extensive analysis of trends in public higher education funding, the book documents and lays bare the ways in which elite, neoliberal decision-makers launched a multi-pronged and attack on public higher education. It highlights the confluence of the enrollment of an increasingly diverse cohort of students in college with the efforts of conservative white legislatures to diminish funding support for public higher education. Who Killed Higher Education? is an important resource for students in courses on higher education, and diversity in education. It will also provide instruction for boards of trustees, institutional leaders, faculty and key campus constituencies in developing long-term strategies that ensure the access and success of a diverse and talented student body.

Author : Stephen M. Gavazzi,E. Gordon Gee
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421442525

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What's Public about Public Higher Ed? by Stephen M. Gavazzi,E. Gordon Gee Pdf

"This book uses survey data to examine public sentiment regarding higher education, focusing on such critical issues as how universities spend taxpayer money, the pursuit of national rankings, student financial aid, and the interplay of international activities versus efforts to create "closer to home" impact. Building on their previous book Land-Grant Universities for the Future, the coauthors unflinchingly present a no-holds-barred exploration of what citizens really think about their public universities"--

Author : Michael T. Benson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781421444161

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Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University by Michael T. Benson Pdf

"This is a biography of Daniel Coit Gilman, who developed the idea of the American research university at Johns Hopkins University"--