The Land-Grant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9781138536517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 370 str.

Roger L. Geiger

Opis

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

Spis treści

Preface - Roger L. Geiger and Nathan M. Sorber
Part I: Scientific and Social Foundations
Introduction - Nathan M. Sorber
Institutionalizing Agricultural Research in the Early American Republic: An International Perspective - Adam R. Nelson
Creating Colleges of Science, Industry, and National Advancement: The Origins of the New England Land-Grant Colleges - Nathan M. Sorber
Educating the Toiling Peoples: Students at the Illinois Industrial University, Spring 1868 - J. Gregory Behle
Part II: The Politics of Launching Land-Grant Colleges, 1862 1890
Introduction - Nathan M. Sorber
Saving the Land Grant for the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania - Peter L. Moran and Roger L. Williams
"An Elephant In The Hands of the State": Creating the Texas Land-Grant College - Susan R. Richardson
Part III: Agriculture and Engineering, 1880 1900
Introduction - Roger L. Geiger
The Populist Vision for Land-Grant Universities, 1880 1900 - Scott Gelber
Robert H. Thurston, Modern Engineering Education, and Its Diffusion through Land-Grant Universities - Gregory Zieren
Part IV: Land-Grant Universities, 1900 1940
Introduction - Roger L. Geiger
President Edmund J. James and the University of Illinois, 1904 1920: Redeeming the Promise of the Morrill Land-Grant Act - Winton U. Solberg
Transforming the Land Grant: The University of New Hampshire and the Pennsylvania State University under the Leadership of Ralph Dorn Hetzel - Jane Robbins
Part V: Universities and the Land-Grant Mission since 1930
Introduction - Roger L. Geiger
The Land-Grant Colleges, Cooperative Extension, and the New Deal - Christopher P. Loss
Social Science over Agriculture: Reimagining the Land-Grant Mission at the University of California-Irvine in the 1960s - Ethan Schrum
Storying and Restorying the Land-Grant System - Scott J. Peters
List of Contributors

O autorze

Roger L. Geiger