The University of Illinois, 1894-1904
Subtitle: THE SHAPING OF THE UNIVERSITY
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: September 11, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780252025792
Subjects: Higher & further education; Organization & management of education; Social history; Universities / polytechnics; Universities; Education; Education / Teaching; Higher; History; History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI); Organizations & Institutions; University of Illinois (Urbana; University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)
First sentence: The University of Illinois was a product of the 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act, which provided states the means to establish new types of schools of the higher grade.