For the common good a new history of higher education in America / Charles Dorn.

Author/creator Dorn, Charles
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
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Contents Literary institutions are founded and endowed for the common good : the liberal professions in New England -- The good order and the harmony of the whole community : public higher learning in the South -- To promote more effectually the grand interests of society : Catholic higher education in the Mid-Atlantic -- To spread throughout the land, an army of practical men : agriculture and mechanics in the Midwest -- The instruction necessary to the practical duties of the profession : teacher education in the West -- To qualify its students for personal success : the rise of the university in the West -- This is to be our profession, to serve the world : women's higher education in New England -- The burden of his ambition is to achieve a distinguished career : African-American higher education in the Mid-Atlantic -- A wedding ceremony between industry and the university : the urban university in the Southeast -- To meet the training and retraining needs of established business : community colleges in the Northeast and Southwest.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Dorn, Charles, author. For the common good Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 9780801452345
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LCCN 2016054349
ISBN9781501712609 (epub/mobi)
ISBN9781501712616 (pdf)

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