Precipice or crossroads?
Subtitle: where America's great public universities stand and where they are going midway through their second century
By: Edited by Daniel Mark Fogel and Elizabeth Malson-Huddle
Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781438444925; 9781438444932
Subjects: Higher Education; State universities and colleges; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / by Daniel Mark Fogel; title: Democracy, the West, and land-grant colleges / by Coy F. Cross; title: The 1890 institutions in African American and American life / by Carolyn Mahoney; title: The modern public university : its land-grant heritage, its land-grant horizon / by E. Gordon Gee; title: Commitments : enhancing the public purposes and outcomes of public higher education / by Mark G. Yudof and Caitlin G. Callaghan; title: Challenges to viability and sustainability : public funding, tuition, college costs, and affordability / by David Shulenburger; title: University-based R&D and economic development : the Morrill Act and the emergence of the American research university / by Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars; title: From a land-grant to a world-grant ideal : extending public higher education core values to a global frame / by John K. Hudzik and Lou Anna K. Simon; title: Statewide university systems : taking the land-grant concept to scale in the twenty-first century / by Nancy L. Zimpher and Jessica Fisher Neidl; title: Creating the future : the promise of public research universities for America / by James J. Duderstadt; title: Challenges to equilibrium : the place of the arts and humanities in public research universities / by Daniel Mark Fogel.