Change in Early Nineteenth-Century Higher Education in New York's Capital District

ISBN-13: 9781433134593 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 208 str.

Richard Ognibene

Opis

This book describes the emergence of a varied collection of higher education institutionsing New York's Capital District, the cities of Albany, Troy, and Schenectady, primarily during the period from 1790 to the 1850s.

Spis treści

Richard Ognibene: Preface - Richard Ognibene: Nineteenth-Century Schools in New York's Capital District: An Overview - Richard Ognibene: Union: The Origin and Development of a Successful Antebellum College - John T. McClintock: Albany's Academies - Trudy J. Hanmer: Emma Hart Willard's Troy Female Seminary: "The Companions, not the Satellites of Men" - S. Michael Halloran: RPI, Originally The Rensselaer School - Ralph DiMarino: Staffing the Common School: The New York State Normal School in Albany - Vincent P. Verdile/Alan S. Boulos/A. John Popp: Emerging Professional Education: Albany Medical College - Robert Emery: Emerging Professional Education: Albany Law School.

O autorze

Richard Ognibene received an Ed.D. in history of education from the University of Rochester. He taught most recently at Seton Hall University and Siena College. Ognibene is editor of A Persistent Reformer: Jonathan Kozol's Work to Promote Equality in America and author of several chapters related to contemporary school reform.