Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt

M. Sorber Nathan

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Clearly written and compellingly argued, Nathan Sorber's Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt should be read by every land-grant institution graduate and faculty and staff member, and by all high government officials who deal with public higher education. Times Higher EducationSorber's history of the movement and society of the time provides an original framework for understanding the origins of the land-grant colleges and the nationwide development of these schools into the twentieth century.The land-grant ideal at the foundation of many institutions of higher learning promotes the sharing of higher education, science, and technical knowledge with local communities. This democratic and utilitarian mission, Nathan M. Sorber shows, has always been subject to heated debate regarding the motivations and goals of land-grant institutions. In Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt, Sorber uncovers the intersection of class interest and economic context, and its influence on the origins, development, and standardization of land-grant colleges.The first land-grant colleges supported by the Morrill Act of 1862 assumed a role in facilitating the rise of a capitalist, industrial economy and a modern, bureaucratized nation-state. The new land-grant colleges contributed ideas, technologies, and technical specialists that supported emerging industries. During the populist revolts chronicled by Sorber, the land-grant colleges became a battleground for resisting many aspects of this transition to modernity. An awakened agricultural population challenged the movement of people and power from the rural periphery to urban centers and worked to reform land-grant colleges to serve the political and economic needs of rural communities. These populists embraced their vocational, open-access land-grant model as a bulwark against the outmigration of rural youth from the countryside, and as a vehicle for preserving the farm, the farmer, and the local community at the center of American democracy.

Sujets

• Histoire
• USA
• History of education
• Higher education
• History of the Americas
• Educational psychology
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 décembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501709739
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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AND-GRANT COEGES AND POPUAR REVOT

AND-GRANT COEGES AND POPUAR REVOT

T HE ORI GI NS OF T HE MORRI L L ACT AND T HE RE F ORM OF HI GHE R E DUCAT I ON

N at h a n M . S o r b e r

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Name: Sorber, Nathan M., author. Tîte: and-grant coeges and popuar revot : the orîgîns  o the Morrî Act and the reorm o hîgher educatîon / Nathan M. Sorber. Descrîptîon: ïthaca : Corne Unîversîty Press, 2018. |  ïncudes bîbîographîca reerences and îndex. ïdentîIers: CCN 2018022113 (prînt) | CCN 2018023461  (ebook) | ïSBN 9781501709739 (pd ) | ïSBN 9781501712371 (epub/mobî) | ïSBN 9781501715174 | ïSBN 9781501715174 (coth : ak. paper) Subjects: CSH: State unîversîtîes and coeges—  Northeastern States—Hîstory—19th century. | Educatîona change—Northeastern States—Hîstory— 19th century. | Educatîon, Hîgher—Northeastern States—Hîstory—19th century. | Unîted States. and Grant Act o 1862. CassîIcatîon: CC B2329.5 (ebook) |  CC B2329.5 .S67 2018 (prînt) | DDC 378.7409034—dc23 C record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/2018022113

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Preace

 ïntroductîon: Reconsîderîng the Orîgîns and Eary Years o the and-Grant Coeges  1. Experîmentatîon în Antebeum Hîgher Educatîon  2. Justîn Morrî, the and-Grant Act o 1862, and the Bîrth o the and-Grant Coeges  3. The and-Grant Reormatîon  4. The New Mîdde Cass and the State Coege ïdea  5. Progressîvîsm and the Rîse o Extensîon  6. Coeducatîon and and-Grant Women  Concusîon: and-Grant Memorîes, egacîes, and Horîzons

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Thîs book began durîng an aumnî weekend at Buckne Unîversîty în 2006. Whîe eaIng through works on the hîstory o hîgher educatîon în Bertrand îbrary, ï encounteredThe Amerîcan College în the Nîneteenth Century. Ater spendîng some tîme wîth the voume, ï reached two concusîons: Irst, ï wanted to earn more about how the socîa and eco- nomîc changes o that century transormed hîgher educatîon; and second, ï needed to get myse to Penn State to work wîth the book’s author, accaîmed hîstorîan Roger Geîger. ït îs dîicut to measure the înLuence that Roger Geî- ger has had on my thînkîng—havîng researched, read, reread, crîtîqued, and taught hîs work over the ast decade. Through hîs ormîdabe exampe, ï honed my crat and ound my own voîce as a hîstorîan o hîgher educatîon. Whîe ï dîd not know ît at the tîme, the hîstorîographîca debates întroduced înThe Amerîcan College în the Nîneteenth Centurywoud be crîtîca to my scho- arshîp. A prevîous generatîon o revîsîonîst hîstorîans had chaenged tradî- tîona înterpretatîons o hîgher educatîon în the nîneteenth century, încudîng the orîgîns and eary years o the and-grant coeges. ï had the ortune at Penn State to connect wîth revîsîonîst hîstorîan Roger Wîîams, whose book George W. Atherton and the Orîgîns o Federal Support or Hîgher Educatîonwas most responsîbe or dîspacîng the and-grant canon. ït soon became appar- ent to me that whîe the hîstorîans that came beore me had broken the od consensus on and-grant hîstory, nothîng had taken îts pace. Peope had been wrîtîng about and-grant coeges or a century and a ha, but at the dawn o the one hundred Itîeth annîversary o the movement, there was remarkaby no workîng înterpretatîon o the orîgîns and eary years o the and-grant co- eges and unîversîtîes. Fîîng thîs voîd has been my oty goa. When ï earned o the grange campaîgns agaînst and-grant coeges în New Engand,ïknewïhadoundahîstorîcaeventthathadpromîseîneucîdatîng the tensîons over the orîgîna purpose o the Morrî Act. When ï dîscovered documents outînîng Justîn Morrî beîng roasted by armers at the Unîversîty o Vermont, ï came to beîeve that, în the words o Kar Marx, and-grant

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