Author: Daniel Coit Gilman
Publisher: Ardent Media
Published: 1941
Total Pages: 340
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Published: 1972-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780842280587
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Publisher: Totowa, N.J : Rowman and Littlefield
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael T. Benson
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2022-10-18
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1421444178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →One of the most remarkable education leaders of the late nineteenth century and the creator of the modern American research university finally gets his due. Daniel Coit Gilman, a Yale-trained geographer who first worked as librarian at his alma mater, led a truly remarkable life. He was selected as the third president of the University of California; was elected as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, where he served for twenty-five years; served as one of the original founders of the Association of American Universities; and—at an age when most retired—was hand-picked by Andrew Carnegie to head up his eponymous institution in Washington, DC. In Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University, Michael T. Benson argues that Gilman's enduring legacy will always be as the father of the modern research university—a uniquely American invention that remains the envy of the entire world. In the past half-century, nothing has been written about Gilman that takes into account his detailed journals, reviews his prodigious correspondence, or considers his broad external board service. This book fills an enormous void in the history of the birth of the "new" American system of higher education, especially as it relates to graduate education. The late 1800s, Benson points out, is one of the most pivotal periods in the development of the American university model; this book reveals that there is no more important figure in shaping that model than Daniel Coit Gilman. Benson focuses on Gilman's time deliberating on, discussing, developing, refining, and eventually implementing the plan that brought the modern research university to life in 1876. He also explains how many university elements that we take for granted—the graduate fellowships, the emphasis on primary investigations and discovery, the funding of the best laboratory and research spaces, the scholarly journals, the university presses, the sprawling health sciences complexes with teaching hospitals—were put in place by Gilman at Johns Hopkins University. Ultimately, the book shows, Gilman and his colleagues forced all institutions to reexamine their own model and to make the requisite changes to adapt, survive, thrive, compete, and contribute.
Author: Michael T. Benson
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2022-10-18
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 142144416X
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Author: George M. Marsden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0195106504
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the decline in religious influence in American universities, discussing why this transformation has occurred.
Author: Andrew Jewett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 1139577107
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book reinterprets the rise of the natural and social sciences as sources of political authority in modern America. Andrew Jewett demonstrates the remarkable persistence of a belief that the scientific enterprise carried with it a set of ethical values capable of grounding a democratic culture - a political function widely assigned to religion. The book traces the shifting formulations of this belief from the creation of the research universities in the Civil War era to the early Cold War years. It examines hundreds of leading scholars who viewed science not merely as a source of technical knowledge, but also as a resource for fostering cultural change. This vision generated surprisingly nuanced portraits of science in the years before the military-industrial complex and has much to teach us today about the relationship between science and democracy.
Author: Joseph J. Kockelmans
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0271038268
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