Land-grant colleges and universities have a storied past. This book
looks at their future. Land-grant colleges and universities occupy
a special place in the landscape of American higher education.
Publicly funded agricultural and technical educational institutions
were first founded in the mid-nineteenth century with the Morrill
Act, which established land grants to support these schools. They
include such prominent names as Cornell, Maryland, Michigan State,
MIT, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Texas A&M, West Virginia
University, Wisconsin, and the University of California-in other
words, four dozen of the largest and best public universities in
America. Add to this a number of historically black colleges and
universities (HBCUs) and tribal colleges-in all, almost 300
institutions. Their mission is a democratic and pragmatic one: to
bring science, technology, agriculture, and the arts to the
American people. In this book, Stephen M. Gavazzi and E. Gordon Gee
discuss present challenges to and future opportunities for these
institutions. Drawing on interviews with 27 college presidents and
chancellors, Gavazzi and Gee explore the strengths and weaknesses
of land-grant universities while examining the changing threats
they face. Arguing that the land-grant university of the
twenty-first century is responsible to a wide range of
constituencies, the authors also pay specific attention to the ways
these universities meet the needs of the communities they serve.
Ultimately, the book suggests that leaders and supporters should
become more fiercely land-grant in their orientation; that is, they
should work to more vigorously uphold their community-focused
missions through teaching, research, and service-oriented
activities. Combining extensive research with Gee's own decades of
leadership experience, Land-Grant Universities for the Future
argues that these schools are the engine of higher education in
America-and perhaps democracy's best hope. This book should be of
great interest to faculty members and students, as well as those
parents, legislators, policymakers, and other area stakeholders who
have a vested interest in the well-being of America's original
public universities.
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