1st Edition
Research and Relevant Knowledge American Research Universities Since World War II
Edited By Roger L. Geiger
Copyright 2004
434 Pages
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Routledge
447 Pages
by
Routledge
447 Pages
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Routledge
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The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education. Research and Relevant Knowledge follows Geiger's earlier volume on American research universities from 1900 to 1940. This second work is the first study to trace this momentous development in the post-World War II period. It describes how the... Read more
Research and Relevant Knowledge; 1: Origins of the Federal Research Economy; 2: Research Universities in the Postwar Era, 1945-1957; 3: The Development of Universities in the Postwar Era; 4: Private Foundations and the Research Universities, 1945-1960; 5: University Advancement from the Postwar Era to the 1960s; 6: The Transformation of Federal Research Support in the Sputnik Era; 7: The Golden Age on Campus: The Research Universities in the 1960s; 8: Dissolution of a Consensus; 9: Surviving the Seventies; 10: The New Era of the 1980s
Biography
Roger L. Geiger
