For The Common Good: A New History Of Higher Education In America (American Institutions And Society)

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

• | Author: Charles Dorn
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 06, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 324 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0801452341
• | ISBN-13: 9780801452345