Land-grant colleges and popular revolt : the origins of the Morrill Act and the reform of higher education /

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"A history of the origins and early years of the land-grant colleges of the northeastern United States. Land-grant colleges of this region were not "farm schools," and, indeed, were meant to offer a service distinct from the practical education most readily available to (and most ofte...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sorber, Nathan M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
United States. > Land Grant Act of 1862.
Land Grant Act of 1862 (United States)
1800-1899
State universities and colleges > Northeastern States > History > 19th century.
Educational change > Northeastern States > History > 19th century.
Education, Higher > Northeastern States > History > 19th century.
Universités d'État > États-Unis (Nord-Est) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Enseignement > Réforme > États-Unis (Nord-Est) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Enseignement supérieur > États-Unis (Nord-Est) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Education, Higher
Educational change
State universities and colleges
Northeastern States
Northeastern United States, bureaucratized nation-state, resisting the transition to modernity, political and economic needs of rural communities, tri-part missions, class warfare of the late nineteenth century.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : reconsidering the origins and early years of the land-grant college movement
  • Experimentation in antebellum higher education
  • Justin Morrill, the Land-Grant Act of 1862, and the birth of the land-grant colleges
  • The land-grant reformation
  • The new middle class and the state college ideal
  • Progressivism and the rise of extension
  • Coeducation and land-grant women
  • Conclusion : land-grant memories, legacies, and horizons.

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