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The Land-Grant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education: 30 (Perspectives on the History of Higher Education)

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The Land-Grant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education: 30 (Perspectives on the History of Higher Education)

This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of Americaâ€™s land-grant colleges and universities, created by the most important piece of legislation in higher education. The story is divided into five parts that provide closer examinations of representative developments.

Part I describes the connection between agricultural research and American colleges. Part II shows that the responsibility of defining and implementing the land-grant act fell to the states, which produced a variety of institutions in the nineteenth century. Part III details the first phase of the conflict during the latter decades of the nineteenth century about whether land colleges were intended to be agricultural colleges, or full academic institutions. Part IV focuses on the fact that full-fledged universities became dominant institutions of American higher education. The final part shows that the land-grant mission is alive and well in university colleges of agriculture and, in fact, is inherent to their identity.

Including some of the best minds the field has to offer, this volume follows in the fine tradition of past books in Transactionâ€™s Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series.

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781412850971
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Transaction Publishers
Manufacturer	Transaction Publishers
NumberOfPages	370
PublicationDate	2013-04-12
Publisher	Transaction Publishers
ReleaseDate	2013-04-12
Studio	Transaction Publishers

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