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Science as Service
Science as Service :
Establishing and Reformulating American Land-Grant
Universities, 1865–1930 is the first of a two-volume
study that traces the foundation and evolution of America’s
land-grant institutions. In this expertly curated collection of
essays, Alan I Marcus has assembled a tough-minded account of the
successes and set-backs of these institutions during the first
sixty-five years of their existence. In myriad scenes, vignettes,
and episodes from the history of land-grant colleges, these
essays demonstrate the defining characteristic of these
institutions: their willingness to proclaim and pursue science in
the service of the publics and students they serve. The Morrill
Land-Grant College Act of 1862 created a series of
institutions—at least one in every state and
territory—with now familiar names: Michigan State
University, Ohio State University, Purdue University, Rutgers
University, the University of Arizona, and the University of
California, to name a few. These schools opened educational
opportunities and pathways to a significant segment of the
American public and gave the United States a global edge in
science, technical innovation, and agriculture.
Science as Service provides an essential body of
literature for understanding the transformations of the
land-grant colleges established by the Morrill Act in 1862 as
well as the considerable impact they had on the history of the
United States. Historians of science, technology, and
agriculture, along with rural sociologists, public decision and
policy makers, educators, and higher education administrators
will find this an essential addition to their book
collections.
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Service as Mandate
Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America’s land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate , Alan I Marcus’s second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these universities have adapted to meet the challenges of the past sixty-five years and how, having done so, they have helped to create the modern world.
From their founding, land-grant schools have provided educational opportunities to millions, producing many of the nation’s scientific, technical, and agricultural leaders and spawning countless technological and agricultural innovations. Nevertheless, their history has not always been smooth or without controversy or setbacks. These vital centers of learning and research have in fact been redefined and reconceptualized many times and today bear only a cursory resemblance to their original incarnations.
The thirteen essays in this collection explore such themes as the emphasis on food science and home economics, the country life movement, the evolution of a public research system, the rise of aerospace engineering, the effects of the GI Bill, the teaching of military science, the sustainable agriculture movement, and the development of golf-turf science. Woven together, these expertly curated scenes, vignettes, and episodes powerfully illustrate these institutions’ ability to flex and adapt to serve the educational needs of an ever-changing American citizenry.
By dint of their mission to remedy social, economic, and technical problems; to improve standards of living; and to enhance the quality of life, land-grant universities are destined and intended to be agents of change—a role that finds them at times both celebrated and hotly contested, even vilified. A readable and fascinating exploration of land-grant universities, Service as Mandate offers a vital exploration of these dynamic institutions to educators, policy makers, students, and the wider communities that land-grant universities serve.
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The Instrumental University
InThe Instrumental University, Ethan Schrum provides an illuminating genealogy of the educational environment in which administrators, professors, and students live and work today. After World War II, research universities in the United States underwent a profound mission change.The Instrumental Universitycombines intellectual, institutional, and political history to reinterpret postwar American life through the changes in higher education.
Acknowledging but rejecting the prevailing conception of the Cold War university largely dedicated to supporting national security, Schrum provides a more complete and contextualized account of the American research university between 1945 and 1970. Uncovering a pervasive instrumental understanding of higher education during that era,The Instrumental Universityshows that universities framed their mission around solving social problems and promoting economic development as central institutions in what would soon be called the knowledge economy. In so doing, these institutions took on more capitalistic and managerial tendencies and, as a result, marginalized founding ideals, such as pursuit of knowledge in academic disciplines and freedom of individual investigators.
The technocratic turn eroded some practices that made the American university special. Yet, as Schrum suggests, the instrumental university was not yet the neoliberal university of the 1970s and onwards in which market considerations trumped all others. University of California president Clark Kerr and other innovators in higher education were driven by a progressive impulse that drew on an earlier tradition grounded in a concern for the common good and social welfare.
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Camp sites : sex, politics, and academic style in postwar America
Reading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book argues that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalism to New Left radicalism entailed as many continuities as ruptures. Both Cold War liberals and radicals understood the university as a privileged site for \"doing politics,\" and both exiled homosexuality from the political ideals each group favored. Liberals, who advanced a politics of style over substance, saw gay people as unable to separate the two, as incapable of maintaining the opportunistic suspension of disbelief on which a tough-minded liberalism depended. Radicals, committed to a politics of authenticity, saw gay people as hopelessly beholden to the role-playing and duplicity that the radicals condemned in their liberal forebears.
Camp Sites considers key themes of postwar culture, from the conflict between performance and authenticity to the rise of the meritocracy, through the lens of camp, the underground sensibility of pre-Stonewall gay life. In so doing, it argues that our basic assumptions about the social style of the postwar milieu are deeply informed by certain presuppositions about homosexual experience and identity, and that these presuppositions remain stubbornly entrenched despite our post-Stonewall consciousness-raising.
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The Black campus movement : Black students and the racial reconstitution of higher education, 1965-1972
This book provides the first national study of this intense and challenging struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state. It also illuminates the context for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history through a history of black higher education and black student activism before 1965.
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Island X
Island X delves into the compelling political lives of
Taiwanese migrants who came to the United States as students from
the 1960s through the 1980s. Often depicted as compliant model
minorities, many were in fact deeply political, shaped by Taiwan's
colonial history and influenced by the global social movements of
their times. As activists, they fought to make Taiwanese people
visible as subjects of injustice and deserving of
self-determination. Under the distorting shadows of Cold War
geopolitics, the Kuomintang regime and collaborators across US
campuses attempted to control Taiwanese in the diaspora through
extralegal surveillance and violence, including harassment,
blacklisting, imprisonment, and even murder. Drawing on interviews
with student activists and extensive archival research, Wendy Cheng
documents how Taiwanese Americans developed tight-knit social
networks as infrastructures for identity formation, consciousness
development, and anticolonial activism. They fought for Taiwanese
independence, opposed state persecution and oppression, and
participated in global political movements. Raising questions about
historical memory and Cold War circuits of power, Island X
is a testament to the lives and advocacy of a generation of
Taiwanese American activists.
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