The Land-Grant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-5147-3 (ISBN)
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.
Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Pennsylvania State University, USA and editor of Perspectives on the History of Higher Education. Nathan M. Sorber is assistant professor of educational leadership studies at West Virginia University, USA.
1: Scientific and Social Foundations; Introduction; Institutionalizing Agricultural Research in the Early American Republic: An International Perspective; Creating Colleges of Science, Industry, and National Advancement: The Origins of the New England Land-Grant Colleges *; Educating the Toiling Peoples: Students at the Illinois Industrial University, Spring 1868; 2: The Politics of Launching Land-Grant Colleges, 1862-1890; Introduction; Saving the Land Grant for the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania; “An Elephant In The Hands of the State” * : Creating the Texas Land-Grant College; 3: Agriculture and Engineering, 1880-1900; Introduction; The Populist Vision for Land-Grant Universities, 1880-1900; Robert H. Thurston, Modern Engineering Education, and Its Diffusion through Land-Grant Universities; 4: Land-Grant Universities, 1900-1940; Introduction; President Edmund J. James and the University of Illinois, 1904-1920: Redeeming the Promise of the Morrill Land-Grant Act; Transforming the Land Grant: The University of New Hampshire and the Pennsylvania State University under the Leadership of Ralph Dorn Hetzel; 5: Universities and the Land-Grant Mission since 1930; Introduction; The Land-Grant Colleges, Cooperative Extension, and the New Deal; Social Science over Agriculture: Reimagining the Land-Grant Mission at the University of California-Irvine in the 1960s; Storying and Restorying the Land-Grant System
| Reihe/Serie | Perspectives on the History of Higher Education |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4128-5147-5 / 1412851475 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4128-5147-3 / 9781412851473 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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