Precipice or Crossroads? Where America's Great Public Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway Through Their Second Century

Name: Precipice or Crossroads? Where America's Great Public Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway Through Their Second Century
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ISBN: 9781438444925

ISBN-10: 1438444923

ISBN-13: 9781438444925

Edition: 2012

Authors: Daniel Mark Fogel, Elizabeth Malson-Huddle

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Comprehensive treatment of the challenges faced by America's public research universities, and of what those challenges may mean for the nation.

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 6/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 362
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

At the University of Vermont, Elizabeth Malson-Huddle is Lecturer in English.



A Note on References


Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Democracy, the West, and Land-Grant Colleges



The 1890 Institutions in African American and American Life



The Modern Public University: Its Land-Grant Heritage, Its Land-Grant Horizon by E. Gordon Gee


Commitments: Enhancing the Public Purposes and Outcomes of Public Higher Education



Challenges to Viability and Sustainability: Public Funding, Tuition, College Costs, and Affordability



University-Based R&D and Economic Development: The Morrill Act and the Emergence of the American Research University



From a Land-Grant to a World-Grant Ideal: Extending Public Higher Education Core Values to a Global Frame



Statewide University Systems: Taking the Land-Grant Concept to Scale in the Twenty-First Century



Creating the Future: The Promise of Public Research Universities for America



Challenges to Equilibrium: The Place of the Arts and Humanities in Public Research Universities



References


List of Contributors


Index