The History of American Higher Education by Geiger, Roger L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Prologue: Universities, Culture, Careers, and Knowledge 1. The First Century of the American College, 1636–1740

Harvard College Yale College The College of William & Mary Conflict and New Learning in the Early Colleges The Embryonic American College

2. Colonial Colleges, 1740–1780

New Colleges for the Middle Colonies Enlightened Colleges College Enthusiasm, 1760–1775 Colonial College Students

3. Republican Universities

Making Colleges Republican Educational Aspirations in the Early Republic New Colleges in the New Republic

4. The Low State of the Colleges, 1800–1820

The Problem with Students The Second Great Awakening and the Colleges The Rise of Professional Schools Who Owns Colleges?

5. Renaissance of the Colleges, 1820–1840

New Models for Colleges The Yale Reports of 1828 Denominational Colleges I Higher Education for Women

6. Regional Divergence and Scientific Advancement, 1840–1860

The Early Collegiate Era in the Northeast Sectionalism and Higher Education in the South Denominational Colleges II: Proliferation in the Upper Midwest Science and the Antebellum College

7. Land Grant Colleges and the Practical Arts

Premodern Institutions The Colleges and the Civil War The Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 Land Grant Universities Agricultural Colleges and A&Ms Engineering and the Land Grant Colleges

8. The Creation of American Universities

The First Phase The Academic Revolution Research, Graduate Education, and the New Universities The Great American Universities Columbia College and the University of Pennsylvania State Universities

9. The Collegiate Revolution

The High Collegiate Era High Schools, Colleges, and Professional Schools Higher Education for Women, 1880–1915 Liberal Culture

10. Mass Higher Education, 1915–1940

World War I Mass Higher Education Shaping Elite Higher Education Liberal Culture and the Curriculum Advanced Education of African Americans

11. The Standard American University

Philanthropic Foundations and the Standardization of Higher Education Research Universities in the Golden Age and Beyond Students and the Great Depression American Higher Education in 1940 The American System of Higher Education

12. Culture, Careers, and Knowledge Index