Beginning in the twentieth century, American faculty increasingly viewed themselves as professionals who were more than mere employees
This volume of Perspectives opens with two contrasting perspectives on the purpose of higher education at the dawning of the university age--perspectives that continue to define the debate today
Iconic leaders are those who have become symbols of their institutions
Volume Twenty-Five of Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, the silver anniversary edition, offers three fresh contributions to the understanding of American higher education in the nineteenth century and three historical perspectives on topics of contemporary concern
The early twentieth century witnessed the rise of middle-class mass periodicals that, while offering readers congenial material, also conveyed new depictions of manliness, liberal education, and the image of business leaders
American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacy of American science
Beginning in the twentieth century, American faculty increasingly viewed themselves as professionals who were more than mere employees
The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education
This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century
This volume of Perspectives opens with two contrasting perspectives on the purpose of higher education at the dawning of the university age--perspectives that continue to define the debate today
The early twentieth century witnessed the rise of middle-class mass periodicals that, while offering readers congenial material, also conveyed new depictions of manliness, liberal education, and the image of business leaders
Volume Twenty-Five of Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, the silver anniversary edition, offers three fresh contributions to the understanding of American higher education in the nineteenth century and three historical perspectives on topics of contemporary concern