The origins of federal support for higher education : George W. Atherton and the land-grant college movement /

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The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education revises the traditional interpretation of the land-grant college movement, whose institutions were brought into being by the 1862 Morrill Act to provide for "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." Rather than bein...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Roger L. (Roger Lea)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1991.
Temas:
Atherton, George Washington, > 1837-1906.
Atherton, George Washington, > 1837-1906
Atherton, George W. > 1837-1906
Atherton, George W.
Federal aid to higher education > United States > History.
School lands > United States > History.
State universities and colleges > United States > History.
School lands.
State universities and colleges.
Aide de l'État à l'enseignement supérieur.
Terres scolaires.
Universités d'État.
Aide de l'État à l'enseignement supérieur > États-Unis > Histoire.
Terres scolaires > États-Unis > Histoire.
Universités d'État > États-Unis > Histoire.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Federal aid to higher education
School lands
State universities and colleges
Höheres Bildungswesen
Öffentliche Förderung
Hochschulfinanzierung
Geschichte
Hoger onderwijs.
Gronduitgifte.
United States
USA
History
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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Credits
  • Preface
  • 1. A New Interpretation
  • 2. The Land-Grant Movement's First Fifty Years
  • Higher Education in the Antebellum Period
  • The Utilitarian Impulse
  • The Rise of Science
  • The Beginnings of Agricultural Science
  • The Emergence of Agricultural Colleges
  • The Politics of the 1862 Morrill Act
  • The Land-Grant Colleges in Their First Decade
  • 3. A New Advocate Emerges
  • Formative Years
  • Rutgers and National Service
  • An Ambitious Land-Grant Agenda
  • Atherton's Debut as Advocate for Land-Grant Colleges
  • First Efforts in Drafting Land-Grant Legislation
  • Congressional Investigation of 1874
  • Return to the Legislative Arena
  • The Land-Grant Colleges After Nearly Two Decades
  • Atherton Becomes a Land-Grant College President
  • 4. The Hatch Act and "the Association"
  • The Rising Influence of Agricultural Science
  • The Struggle for the Hatch Act, and the Preliminary Association Convention
  • Implications of the Hatch Act, and the Association's Founding Convention
  • 5. The Second Morrill Act
  • Atherton's Association Presidency and the Association Agenda
  • Campaign for the Second Morrill Act
  • Aftermath, Implications, and the Association's 1890 Convention
  • 6. The Association and the Emerging Federal Relationship
  • The College-Station Relationship and the Agriculture Department
  • The Adams Act
  • The Mechanic Arts
  • The Land-Grant College Curriculum
  • Graduate Training and the National University Idea
  • The Association and Military Instruction
  • Mining School Legislation
  • A Vehicle for Institutional Development
  • 7. The Atherton Legacy
  • George Atherton's Justin Morrill
  • Atherton's Role in Seminal Legislation
  • Atherton's Impact on the Association and the Land-Grant Colleges
  • The Second Great Triumvirate
  • The Association, the Land-Grant Colleges, and Higher Education
  • Appendix: "Memoranda as to George W. Atherton"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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