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  • Science as Service

    Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930

    Series Libro 1 - NEXUS: New Histories of Science, Technology, the Environment, Agriculture, and Medicine
    Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded account of the successes and set-backs of these institutions during the first sixty-five years of ... Leer más

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  • Knowledge and Money

    Research Universities and the Paradox of the Marketplace

    Market forces have profoundly affected the contemporary research university's fundamental tasks of creating and disseminating knowledge. They arguably have provided American universities access to greater wealth, better students, and stronger links with the economy. Yet they also have exaggerated inequalities, diminished the university's control over its own activities, and weakened the university ... Leer más

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  • History of Higher Education Annual: 1998

    The Land-Grant ACT and American Higher Education: Contexts and Consequences

    Edición de Roger L. Geiger ...
    Series series History of Higher Education Annual
    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. ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • History of Higher Education Annual: 2000

    Edición de Roger L. Geiger ...
    Series series History of Higher Education Annual
    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. ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • History of Higher Education Annual: 1996

    Edición de Roger L. Geiger ...
    Series series History of Higher Education Annual
    A collection of articles and review essays from the year 1996 that make up Volume 16 of the annual publication by The Pennsylvania State University ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Ideas for the Ice Age

    Studies in a Revolutionary Era

    Edición de Max Lerner, Roger L. Geiger ...
    Ideas for the Ice Age is a companion volume to Max Lerner's classic work Ideas Are Weapons. Both were written mostly in the 1930s, as products of a period when the democratic idea was under heavy siege from totalitarian ideologies of the right and left., In its focus, Ideas for the Ice Age is a study of the task of democracy in a revolutionary era, an enterprise that has taken on new urgency in ... Leer más

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  • A New Deal for the Humanities

    Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education

    Series series The American Campus
    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 ... Leer más

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  • To Advance Knowledge

    The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940

    American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacy of American science. Although they emerged as universities in the late nineteenth century, the incorporation of research as a distinct part of their mission largely occurred after 1900. To Advance Knowledge relates how these institutions, by 1940, advanced from provincial outposts in the world of knowledge to leaders in ... Leer más

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  • Perspectives on the History of Higher Education

    Volume 26, 2007

    This volume of Perspectives opens with two contrasting perspectives on the purpose of higher education at the dawning of the university age-perspectives that continue to define the debate today. A. J. Angulo recreates the controversy surrounding the founding and early years of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Whether presented as an alternative to or a repudiation of the prevailing ... Leer más

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  • History of Higher Education Annual: 2003-2004

    Series series History of Higher Education Annual
    History of Higher Education Annual, Volume 23 provides insight into the struggle for civil rights and desegregation of Southern higher education, illuminating how this conflict affected private, historically black colleges and white denominational colleges, while interpreting the dynamics of segregation and desegregation in South Carolina. Other contributions examine town-gown relations for ... Leer más

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  • Perspectives on the History of Higher Education

    Volume 24, 2005

    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!" ... Leer más

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  • Research and Relevant Knowledge

    American Research Universities Since World War II

    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 ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD