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Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt - The Origins of the Morrill Act and the Reform of Higher Education (Hardcover)
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Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt - The Origins of the Morrill Act and the Reform of Higher Education (Hardcover)
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The land-grant ideal at the foundation of many institutions of
higher learning promotes the sharing of higher education, science,
and technical knowledge with local communities. This democratic and
utilitarian mission, Nathan M. Sorber shows, has always been
subject to heated debate regarding the motivations and goals of
land-grant institutions. In Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt,
Sorber uncovers the intersection of class interest and economic
context, and its influence on the origins, development, and
standardization of land-grant colleges. The first land-grant
colleges supported by the Morrill Act of 1862 assumed a role in
facilitating the rise of a capitalist, industrial economy and a
modern, bureaucratized nation-state. The new land-grant colleges
contributed ideas, technologies, and technical specialists that
supported emerging industries. During the populist revolts
chronicled by Sorber, the land-grant colleges became a battleground
for resisting many aspects of this transition to modernity. An
awakened agricultural population challenged the movement of people
and power from the rural periphery to urban centers and worked to
reform land-grant colleges to serve the political and economic
needs of rural communities. These populists embraced their
vocational, open-access land-grant model as a bulwark against the
outmigration of rural youth from the countryside, and as a vehicle
for preserving the farm, the farmer, and the local community at the
center of American democracy. Sorber's history of the movement and
society of the time provides an original framework for
understanding the origins of the land-grant colleges and the
nationwide development of these schools into the twentieth century.
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