For the common good : a new history of higher education in America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dorn, Charles (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
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.