Old Dartmouth On Trial - The Transformation of the Academic Community in Nineteenth-Century America

In OLD DARTMOUTH ON TRIAL, Marilyn Tobias successfully integrates into her account a number of existing studies on nineteenth-century colleges and universities, illuminating larger issues in the history of American education--professionalization, alumni demands for a voice in the governance of colleges and universitites, and the growth of the indirect power of students and faculty.

Summary

Illuminates larger issues in the history of American education - professionalization, alumni demands for a voice in the governance of colleges and universities, and the growth of the indirect power of students and faculty.

Product details

• Authors: Marilyn Tobias, Walt Whitman
• Assisted by: Edwin Miller (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2002
• EAN: 9780814781685
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-8168-5
• No. of pages: 249
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: New York University Series in; New York University Series in
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics