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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Resources in Education
Research and Relevant Knowledge
Author: Roger L. GeigerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351493450
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
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 half of the book analyzes the development of the postwar system of academic research, exploring the contributions of foundations, defense agencies, and universities. The second half depicts the rise of the ""golden age"" of academic research in the years after Sputnik (1957) and its eventual dissolution at the end of the 1960s graduate education. When the federal patron soon reduced its largesse, university students took the lead in challenging the putative hegemony of academic research. The loss of consensus quickly brought the malaise of the 1970s--stagnation, frustration, and equivocation about the research role. The final chapter appraises the renaissance of the 1980s, based largely on a rapprochement with the private sector, and ends by evaluating the embattled status of research universities at the beginning of the 1990s.Research and Relevant Knowledge provides the first authoritative analytical account of American research universities during their most fateful half-century. It will be of critical importance to all those concerned with the future of higher education in the United States.
Statistical Reference Index
Author: Southern Arkansas University
Author: James F. WillisPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462808581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The Colleges of Texas
Author: June Rayfield WelchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Ball State University
Author: Anthony O. EdmondsPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253340177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
This is a narrative and interpretive history of a major institution of higher education. In it, the authors want to avoid the pitfalls of too many other "college histories," which are sometimes either painfully detailed encyclopaedic catalogues of "one damn thing after another" or panegyrics praising one damn president or construction project after another. Obviously, they want to tell an interesting story, focusing on the people who inhabited the institution, from powerful presidents like John R. Emens to boisterous students like David Letterman, whose fame as a late-night talk show host makes his name a household word. And they trace the history of the institution and its people from the local business people who pushed to establish higher education in a small Midwestern city in the late-19th century to a 21st-century president who spent most of his life in the South.But this is not simply a series of stories. The authors emphasise two crucial themes that run throughout Ball State's history. First, more than most American colleges and universities, Ball State has had extraordinarily close ties with the community of Muncie, especially its elite. From the fact that it was named after a local industrialist, to vital community participation in its latest fundraising campaign, Ball State and Muncie-East Central Indiana are inextricably linked.Second, in many ways Ball State is a "representative," even paradigmatic American university. Targeting mainly students from its region, Ball State has had virtually open admission standards for most of its history. It has lived what we call the "Jacksonian" vision of access to education. It has also followed a trajectory similar to many other American universities as it moved from normal school to teachers' college to comprehensive university. Indeed, the authors argue, it is the Ball States of America that best define this nation's "genius" in higher education, separating this country's system of higher education from those of other countries. Ball State University, then, is both distinctive and representative - a fascinating case study in educational history.
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Fact Book: Private colleges
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Category : African American universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
120 Years of American Education
Author: Annual Report
Author: Art Institute of ChicagoPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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