For a Finer, Not a Bigger Yale
Author : Yale College (1718-1887). Endowment Fund Committee
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 1926
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Author : Yale College (1718-1887). Endowment Fund Committee
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 1926
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Author : George Frederick Gundelfinger
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Page : 554 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Sewickley (Pa.)
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Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 37,31 MB
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Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412840088
American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacy of American science. Although they emerged as universities in the late nineteenth century, the incorporation of research as a distinct part of their mission largely occurred after 1900. To Advance Knowledge relates how these institutions, by 1940, advanced from provincial outposts in the world of knowledge to leaders in critical areas of science. This study is the first to systematically examine the preconditions for the development of a university research role. These include the formation of academic disciplines--communities that sponsored associations and journals, which defined and advanced fields of knowledge. Only a few universities were able to engage in these activities. Indeed, universities before World War I struggled to find the means to support their own research through endowments, research funds, and faculty time. To Advance Knowledge shows how these institutions developed the size and wealth to harbor a learned faculty. The book illustrates how arrangements for research changed markedly in the 1920s when the great foundations established from the Rockefeller and Carnegie fortunes embraced the advancement of knowledge as a goal. Universities emerged in this decade as the best-suited vessels to carry this mission. Foundation resources made possible the development of an American social science. In the natural sciences, this patronage allowed the United States to gain parity with Europe on scientific frontiers, of which the most important was undoubtedly nuclear physics. The research role of universities cannot be isolated from the institutions themselves. To Advance Knowledge focuses on sixteen universities that were significantly engaged with research during this era. It analyzes all facets of these institutions--collegiate life, sources of funding, treatment of faculty--since all were relevant to shaping the research role. Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at the Pennsylvania State University. He has edited the History of Higher Education Annual since 1993, was a section editor for the Encyclopedia of Higher Education, and is the author of The American College in the Nineteenth Century and Private Sectors in Higher Education.
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Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Book collecting
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Author : Michael N. Bastedo
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 1421419904
American Higher Education in the Twenty-first century offers a comprehensive introduction to the central issues facing American colleges and universities. The contributors address major changes in higher education--including the rise of organized social movements, the problem of income inequality and stratification, the growth of for-profit and distance education, online education, community colleges, and teaching and learning-- will placing American higher education and its complex social and political context. --Cover.
Author : Yale University
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 1926
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Page : 1184 pages
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Release : 1907
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Page : 548 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
Release : 1927
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Page : 690 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 1928
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Author : Lyman Abbott
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Page : 714 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 1928
Category : United States
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