This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and
development of America's land-grant colleges and universities,
created by the most important piece of legislation in higher
education. The story is divided into five parts that provide closer
examinations of representative developments.
Part I describes the connection between agricultural research
and American colleges. Part II shows that the responsibility of
defining and implementing the land-grant act fell to the states,
which produced a variety of institutions in the nineteenth century.
Part III details the first phase of the conflict during the latter
decades of the nineteenth century about whether land colleges were
intended to be agricultural colleges, or full academic
institutions. Part IV focuses on the fact that full-fledged
universities became dominant institutions of American higher
education. The final part shows that the land-grant mission is
alive and well in university colleges of agriculture and, in fact,
is inherent to their identity.
Including some of the best minds the field has to offer, this
volume follows in the fine tradition of past books in Transaction's
Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series.
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