The history of American higher education : learning and culture from the founding to World War II / Roger L. Geiger.
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Title
The history of American higher education : learning and culture from the founding to World War II / Roger L. Geiger.
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
LA226 .G395 2015
ISBN
9780691149394 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691149399 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0691149399 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Description
xviii, 564 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)905378226
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
ix
Prologue: Universities, Culture, Careers, And Knowledge
xiii
1.
The First Century Of The American College, 1636--1740
Harvard College
1
Yale College
8
The College of William & Mary
11
Conflict and New Learning in the Early Colleges
15
The Embryonic American College
25
2.
Colonial Colleges, 1740--1780
New Colleges for the Middle Colonies
33
Enlightened Colleges
48
College Enthusiasm, 1760--1775
57
Colonial College Students
76
3.
Republican Universities
Making Colleges Republican
92
Educational Aspirations in the Early Republic
102
New Colleges in the New Republic
109
4.
The Low State Of The Colleges, 1800--1820
The Problem with Students
115
The Second Great Awakening and the Colleges
132
The Rise of Professional Schools
143
Who Owns Colleges?
160
5.
Renaissance Of The Colleges, 1820--1840
New Models for Colleges
175
The Yale Reports of 1828
187
Denominational Colleges I
193
Higher Education for Women
206
6.
Regional Divergence And Scientific Advancement, 1840--1860
The Early Collegiate Era in the Northeast
215
Sectionalism and Higher Education in the South
229
Denominational Colleges II: Proliferation in the Upper Midwest
243
Science and the Antebellum College
256
7.
Land Grant Colleges And The Practical Arts
Premodern Institutions
270
The Colleges and the Civil War
277
The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862
281
Land Grant Universities
287
Agricultural Colleges and A&Ms
298
Engineering and the Land Grant Colleges
306
8.
The Creation Of American Universities
The First Phase
316
The Academic Revolution
326
Research, Graduate Education, and the New Universities
338
The Great American Universities
348
Columbia College and the University of Pennsylvania
350
State Universities
354
9.
The Collegiate Revolution
The High Collegiate Era
365
High Schools, Colleges, and Professional Schools
380
Higher Education for Women, 1880--1915
394
Liberal Culture
408
10.
Mass Higher Education, 1915--1940
World War I
423
Mass Higher Education
428
Shaping Elite Higher Education
446
Liberal Culture and the Curriculum
455
Advanced Education of African Americans
467
11.
The Standard American University
Philanthropic Foundations and the Standardization of Higher Education
479
Research Universities in the Golden Age and Beyond
491
Students and the Great Depression
507
American Higher Education in 1940
514
The American System of Higher Education
532
12.
Culture, Careers, And Knowledge
539
Index
553