For the common good : a new history of higher education in America /
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Literary institutions are founded and endowed for the common good : the liberal professions in New England
- The good order and the harmony of the whole community : public higher learning in the South
- To promote more effectually the grand interests of society : Catholic higher education in the Mid-Atlantic
- To spread throughout the land, an army of practical men : agriculture and mechanics in the Midwest
- The instruction necessary to the practical duties of the profession : teacher education in the West
- To qualify its students for personal success : the rise of the university in the West
- This is to be our profession, to serve the world : women's higher education in New England
- The burden of his ambition is to achieve a distinguished career : African-American higher education in the Mid-Atlantic
- A wedding ceremony between industry and the university : the urban university in the Southeast
- To meet the training and retraining needs of established business : community colleges in the Northeast and Southwest.