For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America

✍ Scribed by Charles Dorn

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For the Common Good demonstrates how two hundred years of political, economic, and social change prompted transformation among colleges and universities—including the establishment of entirely new kinds of institutions—and refashioned higher education in the United States over time in essential and often vibrant ways.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
THE EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD
1. “Literary Institutions Are Founded and Endowed for the Common Good”
2. “The Good Order and the Harmony of the Whole Community”
3. “To Promote More Effectually the Grand Interests of Society”
THE ANTEBELLUM AND CIVIL WAR ERAS
4. “To Spread Throughout the Land, an Army of Practical Men”
5. “The Instruction Necessary to the Practical Duties of the Profession”
RECONSTRUCTION THROUGH THE SECOND WORLD WAR
6. “To Qualify Its Students for Personal Success”
7. “This Is to Be Our Profession—To Serve the World”
8. “The Burden of His Ambition Is to Achieve a Distinguished Career”
THE COLD WAR THROUGH THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
9. “A Wedding Ceremony between Industry and the University”
10. “To Meet the Training and Retraining Needs of Established Business”
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index