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Curriculum, Accreditation and Coming of Age of Higher Education Perspectives on the History of Higher Education
Edited By Roger L Geiger
Copyright 2009
172 Pages
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Routledge
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This latest volume in Roger Geiger's distinguished series on the history of higher education begins with a rare glimpse into the minds of mid-nineteenth century collegians. Timothy J. Williams mines the diaries of students at the University of North Carolina to unearth a not unexpected preoccupation with sex, but also a complex psychological context for those feelings. Marc A. VanOverbeke examines... Read more
Confronting a “Wilderness of Sin”: Student Writing, Sex, and Manhood in the Antebellum South; Linking Secondary and Higher Education through the University of Michigan’s Accreditation Program, 1870-1890; An Ambiguous Purpose: Religion and Academics in the Bryn Mawr College Curriculum, 1885-1915; Shaping a Century of Criticism: H.L. Mencken on “Pedagogues” and “Obergogues” in the Rolling Mills of Higher Education; Review Essays; The Liberal Pan-Protestant Moment and the Emergence of the University; Postwar American Higher Education: Documenting Recent History; Selected Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education
Biography
Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at the Pennsylvania State University. He has edited Perspectives on the History of Higher Education since 1993. Some of his other works include Research and Relevant Knowledge, To Advance Knowledge, and The American College in the Nineteenth Century.
