1st Edition
Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities Lessons from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Innovations
Edited By Nathan, M. Sorber
Copyright 2021
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
226 Pages
by
Routledge
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Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities explores major ideas which have shaped the history and development of higher education in North America and considers how these inform contemporary innovations in the sector.
Chapters address intellectual, organizational, social, and political movements which occurred across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and... Read more
Introduction
Part 1: Change and Continuity in American Higher Education
Section Introduction
1. The Academic Engineers 1900 – 1920: The First Generation of Higher Education Reformers
2. Change and Continuity in American Higher Education in the Post-War Era
Part 2: Systemic and Organizational Innovation
Section Introduction
3. Mergers in Higher Education: Historical Developments in US and International Contexts
4. An “Administrative” Approach to Innovation: Two Teacher-College Presidents and Simplified Spelling in the Progressive Era
5. “We Felt … that we were Talking to Old Friends”: Cooperation Among Catholic and Protestant Colleges, 1938 – 1945
6. The Morrill Act Disruption: The Land-Grant Idea and Six Major Reforms of American Higher Education
Part 3: Intellectual Shifts and Higher Education Transformation
Section Introduction
7. Progressivism, John Dewey and the University of Chicago Laboratory School: The Search for Community
8. “To Make Liberal Men: Reclaiming Moral Philosophy in the Mid-Twentieth Century American University”
Conclusion
Biography
Nathan M. Sorber is Associate Professor of higher education administration at West Virginia University, USA
