Author | : Frederick Rudolph |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Universities and colleges |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Frederick Rudolph |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Universities and colleges |
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Author | : Frederick Rudolph |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780820342573 |
First published in 1962, Frederick Rudolph's groundbreaking study, The American College and University, remains one of the most useful and significant works on the history of higher education in America. Bridging the chasm between educational and social history, this book was one of the first to examine developments in higher education in the context of the social, economic, and political forces that were shaping the nation at large. Surveying higher education from the colonial era through the mid-twentieth century, Rudolph explores a multitude of issues from the financing of institutions and the development of curriculum to the education of women and blacks, the rise of college athletics, and the complexities of student life. In his foreword to this new edition, John Thelin assesses the impact that Rudolph's work has had on higher education studies. The new edition also includes a bibliographic essay by Thelin covering significant works in the field that have appeared since the publication of the first edition. At a time when our educational system as a whole is under intense scrutiny, Rudolph's seminal work offers an important historical perspective on the development of higher education in the United States.
Author | : David O. Levine |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2019-06-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1501744151 |
Is higher education a right or a privilege? Who should go to college? What should they study there? These questions were hotly debated between the world wars, when an unprecedented boom in college enrollments forced Americans to struggle between their belief in the importance of educational opportunity and their desire to preserve the existing social structure. In The American College and the Culture of Aspiration, 1915–1940, David O. Levine offers the first in-depth history of higher education during this era, a period when colleges and universities became arbiters of social and economic mobility and a hierarchy of schools evolved to meet growing demands for occupational training and socialization.
Author | : Roger L. Geiger |
Publisher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780826513649 |
Counter Roger L. Geiger's collection of essays and interpretive introduction shows the growth of colleges in America over the nineteenth century, from eighteen schools at the beginning of the century to 450 Universities by the end, which transformed the life of the nation.
Author | : Praeger Publishers |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 1661 |
Release | : 2010-04-16 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 031336608X |
For well over a half century, American Universities and Colleges has been the most comprehensive and highly respected directory of four-year institutions of higher education in the United States. A two-volume set that Choice magazine hailed as a most important resource in its November 2006 issue, this revised edition features the most up-to-date statistical data available to guide students in making a smart yet practical decision in choosing the university or college of their dreams. In addition, the set serves as an indispensable reference source for parents, college advisors, educators, and public, academic, and high school librarians. These two volumes provide extensive information on 1,900 institutions of higher education, including all accredited colleges and universities that offer at least the baccalaureate degree. This essential resource offers pertinent, statistical data on such topics as tuition, room and board; admission requirements; financial aid; enrollments; student life; library holdings; accelerated and study abroad programs; departments and teaching staff; buildings and grounds; and degrees conferred. Volume two of the set provides four indexes, including an institutional Index, a subject accreditation index, a levels of degrees offered index, and a tabular index of summary data by state. These helpful indexes allow readers to find information easily and to make comparisons among institutions effectively. Also contained within the text are charts and tables that provide easy access to comparative data on relevant topics.
Author | : James Martin |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421432781 |
Singer, Allison Starer, Wim Wiewel, Eugene L. Zdziarski II
Author | : John C. Brereton |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 1996-01-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0822990563 |
This volume describes the formative years of English composition courses in college through a study of the most prominent documents of the time: magazine articles, scholarly reports, early textbooks, teachers' testimonies-and some of the actual student papers that provoked discussion. Includes writings by leading scholars of the era such as Adams Sherman Hill, Gertrude Buck, William Edward Mead, Lane Cooper, William Lyon Phelps, and Fred Newton Scott.
Author | : John R. Thelin |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2019-04-02 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421428830 |
Anyone studying the history of this institution in America must read Thelin's classic text, which has distinguished itself as the most wide-ranging and engaging account of the origins and evolution of America's institutions of higher learning.
Author | : Roger L. Geiger |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2014-11-09 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1400852056 |
An authoritative one-volume history of the origins and development of American higher education This book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II. The most in-depth and authoritative history of the subject available, The History of American Higher Education traces how colleges and universities were shaped by the shifting influences of culture, the emergence of new career opportunities, and the unrelenting advancement of knowledge. Roger Geiger, arguably today's leading historian of American higher education, vividly describes how colonial colleges developed a unified yet diverse educational tradition capable of weathering the social upheaval of the Revolution as well as the evangelical fervor of the Second Great Awakening. He shows how the character of college education in different regions diverged significantly in the years leading up to the Civil War—for example, the state universities of the antebellum South were dominated by the sons of planters and their culture—and how higher education was later revolutionized by the land-grant movement, the growth of academic professionalism, and the transformation of campus life by students. By the beginning of the Second World War, the standard American university had taken shape, setting the stage for the postwar education boom. Breathtaking in scope and rich in narrative detail, The History of American Higher Education is the most comprehensive single-volume history of the origins and development of of higher education in the United States.