History of Higher Education Annual: 1998 - The Land Grant Act American Higher Education: Contexts Consequences

List of contents

Editor’s Introduction, Articles, Alden Partridge’s Proposal for a National System of Education: A Model for the Morrill Land-Grant Act, Leading and Losing in the Agricultural Education Movement: Freeman G. Cary and Farmers’ College, 1846-1884, The Rise and Fall of Useful Knowledge: Higher Education for Science, Agriculture & the Mechanics Arts, 1850-1875, Justin S. Morrill and George W. Atherton: A Quarter-Century Collaboration to Advance the Land-Grant Colleges, The Second Morrill Act and Jim Crow Politics: Land-Grant Education at Arkansas AM&N College, 1890-1927, The Social Origins of Students at the Illinois Industrial University, 1868-1894, The Humanist Revolution in America, 1820-1860: Classical Antiquity in the Colleges, Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education

About the author

Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at The Pennsylvania State University and editor of the Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Geiger
• Assisted by: Roger Geiger (Editor), Roger L. Geiger (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.1998
• EAN: 9781412805445
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-0544-5
• No. of pages: 145
• Series: History of Higher Education Annual
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Special Education / General, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher