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Perspectives on the History of Higher Education : Volume 25, 2006
ISBN: 9781412806176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Volume Twenty-Five of Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, the silver anniversary edition, offers three fresh contributions to the understanding of American higher education in the nineteenth century and three historical perspectives on topics of contemporary concern. The divergent paths of antebellum colleges in the North and South have long been recognized. Stephen Tomlinson and Kevin Windham discuss Alva Woods, who moved from Calvinist New England to preside over the new University of Alabama. Woods personified the commitment to evangelical Protestantism and rigid...
Volume Twenty-Five of Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, the silver anniversary edition, offers three fresh contributions to the ...
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History of Higher Education Annual: 2000: 2000
ISBN: 9781138525115 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A collection of articles and review essays from the year 2000 that make up Volume 20 of the annual publication by The Pennsylvania State University.
A collection of articles and review essays from the year 2000 that make up Volume 20 of the annual publication by The Pennsylvania State University.
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643,19 |
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Perspectives on the History of Higher Education: Volume 25, 2006
ISBN: 9781138529755 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Curriculum, Accreditation and Coming of Age of Higher Education: Perspectives on the History of Higher Education
ISBN: 9781412810319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This latest volume in Roger Geiger's distinguished series on the history of higher education begins with a rare glimpse into the minds of mid-nineteenth century collegians. Timothy J. Williams mines the diaries of students at the University of North Carolina to unearth a not unexpected preoccupation with sex, but also a complex psychological context for those feelings. Marc A. VanOverbeke examines eff orts by the University of Michigan to strengthen connections with secondary schools and build a hierarchical educational system in Michigan.
This latest volume in Roger Geiger's distinguished series on the history of higher education begins with a rare glimpse into the minds of mid-nineteen...
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History of Higher Education Annual: 2000: 2000
ISBN: 9781412805469 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940
ISBN: 9781138539709 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Research and Relevant Knowledge : American Research Universities Since World War II
ISBN: 9780765805690 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education. Research and Relevant Knowledge follows Geiger's earlier volume on American research universities from 1900 to 1940. This second work is the first study to trace this momentous development in the post-World War II period. It describes how the federal government first relied on university scientists during the war, and how the resulting relationship set the pattern for the postwar mushrooming of academic research. The first... The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher edu... |
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American College in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780826513366 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At the end of the eighteenth century, just eighteen colleges existed in the United States, with an average enrollment of fewer than seventy. One hundred years later, over 450 American colleges and universities boasted enrollments up more than one hundredfold. The role of educational institutions in the life of the nation had been utterly transformed. As the bridge between the two eras, the nineteenth-century college has been among the most controversial subjects in the history of American higher education. While earlier historians portrayed the -old-time- college as an impediment to... At the end of the eighteenth century, just eighteen colleges existed in the United States, with an average enrollment of fewer than seventy. One hu... |
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American Higher Education Since World War II: A History
ISBN: 9780691216928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Perspectives on the History of Higher Education : Volume 24, 2005
ISBN: 9781412805179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The early twentieth century witnessed the rise of middle-class mass periodicals that, while offering readers congenial material, also conveyed new depictions of manliness, liberal education, and the image of business leaders. "Should Your Boy Go to College?" asked one magazine story; and for over two decades these middle-class magazines answered, in numerous permutations, with a collective "yes " In the course of interpreting these themes they reshaped the vision of a college education, and created the ideal of a college-educated businessman. Volume 24 of the Perspectives on the... The early twentieth century witnessed the rise of middle-class mass periodicals that, while offering readers congenial material, also conveyed new ... |
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History of Higher Education Annual: 1998: The Land-Grant ACT and American Higher Education: Contexts and Consequences
ISBN: 9781138525092 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Published in 1998, this is Volume 18 of the Perspectives on the History of Higher Education annual which includes a collection of 7 articles on The Land-Grant Act and American Higher Education: Context and Consequences.
Published in 1998, this is Volume 18 of the Perspectives on the History of Higher Education annual which includes a collection of 7 articles on The La...
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Academic Freedom in the Age of the College
ISBN: 9781560008606 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When this classic volume first appeared, academic freedom was a crucially important issue. It is equally so today. Hofstadter approaches the topic historically, showing how events from various historical epochs expose the degree of freedom in academic institutions. The volume exemplifies Richard Hofstader's qualities as a historian as well as his characteristic narrative ability. Hofstadter first describes the medieval university and how its political independence evolved from its status as a corporate body, establishing a precedent for intellectual freedom that has been a measuring rod...
When this classic volume first appeared, academic freedom was a crucially important issue. It is equally so today. Hofstadter approaches the topic his...
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Ideas for the Ice Age: Studies in a Revolutionary Era
ISBN: 9781138525634 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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History of Higher Education Annual: 2003-2004
ISBN: 9781138525146 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Higher Education for African Americans Before the Civil Rights Era, 1900-1964
ISBN: 9781412847711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume examines the evolution of higher education opportunities for African Americans in the early and mid-twentieth century. It contributes to understanding how African Americans overcame great odds to obtain advanced education in their own institutions, how they asserted themselves to gain control over those institutions, and how they persisted despite discrimination and intimidation in both northern and southern universities. Following an introduction by the editors are contributions by Richard M. Breaux, Louis Ray, Lauren Kientz Anderson, Timothy Reese Cain, Linda M. Perkins, and...
This volume examines the evolution of higher education opportunities for African Americans in the early and mid-twentieth century. It contributes to u...
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To Advance Knowledge : The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940
ISBN: 9780765805607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacyof American science. Although they emerged as universities in the latenineteenth century, the incorporation of research as a distinct part of theirmission largely occurred after 1900. ToAdvance Knowledge relates howthese institutions, by 1940, advanced from provincial outposts in the worldof knowledge to leaders in critical areas of science.
American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacyof American science. Although they emerged as universities in the lateninet...
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Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class
ISBN: 9781138529793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Land-Grant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education
ISBN: 9781412851473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 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...
This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of America's land-grant colleges and universities, created by the most impor...
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A New Deal for the Humanities: Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education
ISBN: 9780813573236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about "crisis" is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the future direction of the humanities. These scholars keep the focus on public higher education, for it is in our state schools that the liberal arts are taught to the greatest numbers and...
Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about "crisis" is overblown, humanities departments do...
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A New Deal for the Humanities: Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education
ISBN: 9780813573243 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about "crisis" is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed bring together twelve prominent scholars who address the history, the present state, and the future direction of the humanities. These scholars keep the focus on public higher education, for it is in our state schools that the liberal arts are taught to the greatest numbers and...
Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about "crisis" is overblown, humanities departments do...
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