Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities

Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities explores major ideas which have shaped the history and development of higher education in North America and considers how these might inform contemporary innovations in the sector.

Autorentext

Nathan M. Sorber is Associate Professor of higher education administration at West Virginia University, USA

Zusammenfassung
Change and Continuity in American Colleges and Universities explores major ideas which have shaped the history and development of higher education in North America and considers how these might inform contemporary innovations in the sector.

Inhalt

Introduction

Part 1: Change and Continuity in American Higher Education

Section Introduction

1. The Academic Engineers 1900 1920: The First Generation of Higher Education Reformers

2. Change and Continuity in American Higher Education in the Post-War Era

   Part 2: Systemic and Organizational Innovation

   Section Introduction

3. Mergers in Higher Education: Historical Developments in US and International Contexts

4. An Administrative Approach to Innovation: Two Teacher-College Presidents and Simplified Spelling in the Progressive Era

5. We Felt that we were Talking to Old Friends: Cooperation Among Catholic and Protestant Colleges, 1938 1945

6. The Morrill Act Disruption: The Land-Grant Idea and Six Major Reforms of American Higher Education

   Part 3: Intellectual Shifts and Higher Education Transformation

   Section Introduction

7. Progressivism, John Dewey and the University of Chicago Laboratory School: The Search for Community

8. To Make Liberal Men: Reclaiming Moral Philosophy in the Mid-Twentieth Century American University

   Conclusion