The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education

Author: Roger L. Williams
Edition: 1St Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0271007303

The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education: George W. Atherton and the Land-Grant College Movement

The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education revises the traditional interpretation of the land-grant college movement, whose institutions were brought into being b the 1862 Morrill Act to provide for "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes. Download The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education: George W. Atherton and the Land-Grant College Movement from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Rather than being the inevitable consequence of the unfolding dynamic of institutional and socioeconomic forces, Williams argues, it was the active intervention and initiate of a handful of educational leaders that secured the colleges' future---above all, the activities of George W. Atherton.For nearly three decades, Atherton, who was the seventh president of the Pennsylvania State University, worked to secure consistent federal financial support for the colleges, which in Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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