The instrumental university : education in service of the national agenda after World War II /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schrum, Ethan D. (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Series:	Histories of American education.
Subjects:	Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States > History > 20th century. Universities and colleges > United States > History > 20th century. Educational change > United States > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the instrumental university and American modernity
The progressive roots of the instrumental university : public administration, city planning, and industrial relations
Clark Kerr : leading proponent of the instrumental university
The urban university as community service institution : Pennsylvania in the era of Gaylord P. Harnwell
Instruments of technical cooperation? : American universities' institution building abroad
A use of the University of Michigan : Samuel P. Hayes, Jr. and economic development
Founding the University of California at Irvine : high modern social science and technocratic public policy
Epilogue : critics of the instrumental university.