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Perspectives on the History of Higher Education - Volume 25, 2006 (Paperback, 2006 Ed.)
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Perspectives on the History of Higher Education - Volume 25, 2006 (Paperback, 2006 Ed.)
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Volume Twenty-Five of "Perspectives on the History of Higher
Education," the silver anniversary edition, offers three fresh
contributions to the understanding of American higher education in
the nineteenth century and three historical perspectives on topics
of contemporary concern.
The divergent paths of antebellum colleges in the North and South
have long been recognized. Stephen Tomlinson and Kevin Windham
discuss Alva Woods, who moved from Calvinist New England to preside
over the new University of Alabama. Woods personified the
commitment to evangelical Protestantism and rigid student
discipline that prevailed in northern colleges of that era, but in
Tuscaloosa confronted the sons of planters, raised to respect
mainly independence, power, and the Southern code of honor. Adam
Nelson considers geology, a crucially important science in early
America that existed on the periphery of higher education but
eventually exerted pressure for intellectual modernization. He
portrays the small community of scientific pioneers who sought the
latest scientific knowledge from Europe, surveyed the mineral
wealth of American states, and advocated for science in the college
curriculum.
Beginning in the 1930s, the National Research Council waged an
organized campaign to encourage academic patenting and centralize
it within one organization. Jane Robbins explains the crosscurrents
of interests that plagued and eventually scuttled that effort, but
that set the stage for the contemporary practice of university
patenting. Robert Hampel examines how, for more than four decades,
students at Yale University took a major responsibility for
learning into their own hands by publishing a "Critique" of
courses. He analyzes these documents to determine if their aims
were to identify easy or challenging offerings, and finds that this
effort produced highly responsible articles. A review essay by
Doris Malkmus sheds new light on the experience of co-eds in
post-bellum universities and normal schools, while one by Nancy
Diamond discusses the university presidency, and deftly shows that
examining presidential lives can offer telling perspective on the
evolution of the university.
"Roger L. Geiger" is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education
at the Pennsylvania State University. He has edited the
Perspectives on the History of Higher Education Annual since 1993.
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