Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities - Lessons From Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Innovations

Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities explores major ideas which have shaped the history and development of higher education in North America and considers how these might inform contemporary innovations in the sector.

List of contents

Introduction
Part 1: Change and Continuity in American Higher Education
Section Introduction
1. The Academic Engineers 1900 – 1920: The First Generation of Higher Education Reformers
2. Change and Continuity in American Higher Education in the Post-War Era
Part 2: Systemic and Organizational Innovation
Section Introduction
3. Mergers in Higher Education: Historical Developments in US and International Contexts
4. An “Administrative” Approach to Innovation: Two Teacher-College Presidents and Simplified Spelling in the Progressive Era
5. “We Felt … that we were Talking to Old Friends”: Cooperation Among Catholic and Protestant Colleges, 1938 – 1945
6. The Morrill Act Disruption: The Land-Grant Idea and Six Major Reforms of American Higher Education
Part 3: Intellectual Shifts and Higher Education Transformation
Section Introduction
7. Progressivism, John Dewey and the University of Chicago Laboratory School: The Search for Community
8. “To Make Liberal Men: Reclaiming Moral Philosophy in the Mid-Twentieth Century American University”
Conclusion

About the author

Nathan M. Sorber is Associate Professor of higher education administration at West Virginia University, USA

Summary

Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities explores major ideas which have shaped the history and development of higher education in North America and considers how these might inform contemporary innovations in the sector.

Product details

• Authors: Nathan Sorber, Nathan M. Sorber
• Assisted by: Sorber (Editor), Nathan Sorber (Editor), Nathan M Sorber (Editor), Nathan M. Sorber (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780367358402
• ISBN: 978-0-367-35840-2
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Perspectives on the History of Higher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / History, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, History of Education, United States of America, USA, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher