Daniel Mark Fogel & Elizabeth Malson-Huddle 
Precipice or Crossroads? [EPUB ebook] 
Where America’s Great Public Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway through Their Second Century

President Lincoln signed the Morrill Land-grant Act in 1862, launching a nationwide project in public higher education that would build democracy, prosperity, and competitiveness to levels undreamed of 150 years ago. As student costs skyrocket, driven by steep drops in public funding, the viability of that project, like the nation itself, is under threat. In Precipice or Crossroads? top experts in higher education address a broad range of issues central to the question of whether the quality of these institutions—and of American life and democracy—can be sustained.

Table des matières

A Note on References



Foreword


Peter Mc Pherson



Acknowledgments



Introduction


Daniel Mark Fogel



Democracy, the West, and Land-Grant Colleges


Coy F. Cross II



The 1890 Institutions in African American and American Life


Carolyn R. Mahoney



The Modern Public University: Its Land-Grant Heritage, Its Land-Grant Horizon


E. Gordon Gee



Commitments: Enhancing the Public Purposes and Outcomes of Public Higher Education


Mark G. Yudof and Caitlin Callaghan



Challenges to Viability and Sustainability: Public Funding, Tuition, College Costs, and Affordability


David E. Shulenburger



University-Based R&D and Economic Development: The Morrill Act and the Emergence of the American Research University


Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars



From a Land-Grant to a World-Grant Ideal: Extending Public Higher Education Core Values to a Global Frame


John Hudzik and Lou Anna K. Simon



Statewide University Systems: Taking the Land-Grant Concept to Scale in the Twenty-First Century


Nancy L. Zimpher and Jessica Fisher Neidl



Creating the Future: The Promise of Public Research Universities for America


James J. Duderstadt



Challenges to Equilibrium: The Place of the Arts and Humanities in Public Research Universities


Daniel Mark Fogel



References

Notes on Contributors

Index

A propos de l’auteur

At the University of Vermont,
Daniel Mark Fogel is Professor of English and former President, and
Elizabeth Malson-Huddle is Lecturer in English.