The American College in the Nineteenth CenturyRoger L. Geiger Vanderbilt University Press, 2000 - 363 من الصفحات At the end of the eighteenth century, just eighteen colleges existed in the United States, with an average enrollment of fewer than seventy. One hundred years later, over 450 American colleges and universities boasted enrollments up more than one hundredfold. The role of educational institutions in the life of the nation had been utterly transformed. As the bridge between the two eras, the nineteenth-century college has been among the most controversial subjects in the history of American higher education. While earlier historians portrayed the "old-time" college as an impediment to modernization, later scholars affirmed the broad role of the colleges in the education of the American people. The American College in the Nineteenth Century combines the best recent scholarship with an interpretive introduction to provide a fresh view of the development of American colleges. The contributors consider these institutions within four new contexts: first, the dramatic transformation in the college students' experience from oppressive discipline to relative freedom; second, the regional variations among the developing American colleges (for example, a South dominated by state colleges, a Midwest by denominational schools); third, the revolution in the century's third quarter as colleges became multipurpose institutions; and fourth, universities that became dominant by the end of the century, incorporating rather than displacing the colleges. Innovative in its examination of the nature and function of these uniquely American institutions, The American College in the Nineteenth Century is a vital addition to the scholarship of the period. Contributors: David B. Potts, Leon Jackson, Julie Ann Bubolz, Michael Sugrue, James Findlay, Margaret A. Nash, Peter Dobkin Hall, James Turner, Paul Bernard, and Willard J. Pugh. |
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... Ohio , 1855-1867 MARGARET A. NASH The " Superior Instruction of Women , " 1836-1890 183 ROGER L. GEIGER Noah Porter Writ Large ? 196 Reflections on the Modernization of American Higher Education and Its Critics , 1866-1916 PETER DOBKIN ...
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Curriculum and Enrollment 32 | 32 |
The Rights of Man and the Rites of Youth | 46 |
College As It Was in the MidNineteenth Century | 80 |
Agency Denominations and the Western Colleges 18301860 | 115 |
The Rise and Fall of Useful Knowledge | 153 |
A Salutary Rivalry | 169 |
The Superior Instruction of Women 18361890 | 183 |
Noah Porter Writ Large? | 196 |
The German Model and the Graduate School | 221 |
A Curious Working of Cross Purposes in the Founding of | 242 |
The Crisis of the Old Order | 264 |
Education 18501890 | 276 |
Notes | 277 |
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