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Author(s): Alan I. Marcus (editor)
ISBN(s): 9780817388188, 0817388184
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.87 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0817318682

ISBN 13: 978-0817318680 

Author: Alan I. Marcus

Science as Service: Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded account of the successes and set-backs of these institutions during the first sixty-five years of their existence. In myriad scenes, vignettes, and episodes from the history of land-grant colleges, these essays demonstrate the defining characteristic of these institutions: their willingness to proclaim and pursue science in the service of the publics and students they serve.
 
The Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862 created a series of institutions—at least one in every state and territory—with now familiar names: Michigan State University, Ohio State University, Purdue University, Rutgers University, the University of Arizona, and the University of California, to name a few. These schools opened educational opportunities and pathways to a significant segment of the American public and gave the United States a global edge in science, technical innovation, and agriculture.
 
Science as Service provides an essential body of literature for understanding the transformations of the land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act in 1862 as well as the considerable impact they had on the history of the United States. Historians of science, technology, and agriculture, along with rural sociologists, public decision and policy makers, educators, and higher education administrators will find this an essential addition to their book collections.

Table of contents:

  1. Land-Grant Colleges and the Pre-Modern Era of American Higher Education, 1850-1890

  2. Transnational Exchanges of Agricultural Scientific Thought from the Morrill Act through the Hatch Act

  3. The Rise and Fall of the Grange’s Yankee Land-Grant Colleges, 1873-1901

  4. Is Milk the Measure of All Things? : Babcock Tests, Breed Associations, and Land-Grant Scientists, 1890-1920

  5. Engineering National Character : Early Land-Grant College Science and the Quest for an American Identity

  6. People’s Colleges for Other Citizens : Black Land-Grant Institutions and the Politics of Educational Expansion in the Post-Civil War Era

  7. The Morrill Land-Grant Act and American Cities : The Neglected Story

  8. Generating Knowledge and Power : The Role of Land-Grant Colleges in Electrifying America

  9. Spreading Their Butter Too Thin : Land-Grant Libraries, 1900-1940

  10. Engineering and the Land-Grant Tradition at the University of Illinois, 1868-1950

  11. Appendix : US Congressional Acts Pertaining to the Land-Grant Institutions

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