... do with curiously accelerating frequency—they generally cite him as the man responsible for introducing Great Books ... he also earned several dozen mentions in the 2009 volume by Alex Beam, A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall ...
21 Robert Maynard Hutchins , Education for Freedom ( Baton Rouge , La .: Louisiana State University Press , 1943 ) , 3 . 22 Ibid . , 7 . 23 Robert M. Hutchins , " The Autobiography Of An Ex - Law Student , " 29 December 1933 , Box 20 ...
30 Michael Wreszin, A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald (New York: 1994), 15, 20. My entire treatment of Macdonald draws heavily on this excellent biography. 31 Ibid., 22. 32Ibid., 92–93.
For more on Maclure's travels, see John S. Doskey, ed., The European Journals of William Maclure (Philadelphia, 1988). Ibid., 23. Ibid., 27. Back in the United States, Maclure received an invitation to dine with President Jefferson at ...
This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of America's land-grant colleges and universities, created by the most important piece of legislation in higher education.
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Linda Eisenmann, Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006); Charles Dorn, “ 'War Conditions Made It Impossible .
Sweeping in scope and richly insightful, this groundbreaking book demonstrates how growth has been the defining feature of modern higher education, but how each generation since the war has pursued it for different reasons.
Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at the Pennsylvania State University. He has edited the History of Higher Education Annual since 1993.
This title reveals the ways that economic development has been incorporated into university commitments and makes a strong case for the long-term promise of practical uses for academic research.
... University of Chicago Press, 1996). I provide a much broader and more detailed analysis of Porter's life and ideas in Between College and University: Noah Porter, Yale, and Transformation of American Academic Culture, 1800-1890 ...
... The Levine Affair: A Case Study in Academic Freedom,” The Pacific Historical Review 39, no. 1 (1970); George M. Marsden, “The Ambiguities of Academic Freedom,” Church History 62, no. 2 (1993); Earl W. Porter, “The Bassett Affair ...
"This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of America's land-grant colleges and universities, created by the most important piece of legislation in higher education.
This latest volume in Roger Geiger's distinguished series on the history of higher education begins with a rare glimpse into the minds of mid-nineteenth century collegians.