The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education: George W. Atherton and the Land-Grant College Movement
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The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education revises the traditional interpretation of the land-grant college movement, whose institutions were brought into being by the 1862 Morrill Act to provide for "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." Rather than being the inevitable consequence of the unfolding dynamic of institutional and socioeconomic forces, Williams argues, it was the active intervention and initiative of...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0271007303
ISBN13:9780271007304
Release Date:July 1991
Publisher:Penn State University Press
Length:284 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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