The New Southern University [electronic resource] : Academic Freedom and Liberalism at UNC /
Holden, Charles J.
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky,
c2012.
Established in 1789, the University of North Carolina is the oldest public university in the nation. UNC's reputation as one of the South's leading institutions has drawn some of the nation's leading educators and helped it become a model of the modern American university. However, the school's location in the country's most conservative region presented certain challenges during the early 1900s, as new ideas of academic freedom and liberalism began to pervade its educational philosophy. This innovative generation of professors defined themselves as truth-seekers whose work had the potentia
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Established in 1789, the University of North Carolina is the oldest public university in the nation. UNC's reputation as one of the South's leading institutions has drawn some of the nation's leading educators and helped it become a model of the modern American university. However, the school's location in the country's most conservative region presented certain challenges during the early 1900s, as new ideas of academic freedom and liberalism began to pervade its educational philosophy. This innovative generation of professors defined themselves as truth-seekers whose work had the potentia
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Race was a delicate matter": the academic study of race relations -- "Go ahead and do harm": the academic study of labor relations -- "A complex and baffling age": Frank Porter Graham ushers in a new decade -- "A new Negro is about to come on the scene": leadership vs. caution in struggles for racial equality -- "The rankest center of communism": the left comes to campus -- Epilogue: "the university must go on being a university": Frank Graham and the World War II era.
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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)
Academic freedom
Higher education and state
Educational equalization