TY - BOOK AU - Sorber,Nathan M. TI - Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt: The Origins of the Morrill Act and the Reform of Higher Education SN - 9781501709739 AV - LB2329.5 .S67 2018 U1 - 378.7409034 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Education, Higher KW - Northeastern States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Educational change KW - State universities and colleges KW - Education & History Of Education KW - Legal History & Studies KW - U.S. History KW - EDUCATION / History KW - bisacsh KW - American higher education history KW - American higher education KW - Democracy and Higher Education KW - Education KW - Land-Grant Education KW - Learning KW - Morrill Act of 1862 KW - Reshaping of American Higher Education KW - american history KW - books for education majors KW - doctoral student in education KW - education reform KW - educational change KW - educational history KW - educational research KW - educational theory KW - higher education KW - history of american education KW - history of education KW - history of higher education KW - land-grant canon KW - land-grant college history KW - land-grant college movement KW - land-grant colleges in new england KW - land-grant colleges KW - land-grant history KW - land-grant ideal KW - land-grant institutions KW - land-grant model KW - land-grant university system development KW - land-grant university system KW - masters student in education KW - morrill act KW - nineteenth century american history KW - northeast america history KW - northeastern universities KW - origins of the land-grant colleges KW - public higher education faculty KW - public higher education KW - the center for the study of higher education KW - united states history N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: Reconsidering the Origins and Early Years of the Land-Grant Colleges --; Chapter 1. Experimentation in Antebellum Higher Education --; Chapter 2. Justin Morrill, the Land-Grant Act of 1862, and the Birth of the Yankee Land-Grant Colleges --; Chapter 3. The Land-Grant Reformation --; Chapter 4. The New Middle Class and the State College Ideal --; Chapter 5. Progressivism and the Rise of Extension --; 6. Coeducation and Land-Grant Women --; Conclusion: Land-Grant Memories, Legacies, and Horizons --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Clearly written and compellingly argued, Nathan Sorber's Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt should be read by every land-grant institution graduate and faculty and staff member, and by all high government officials who deal with public higher education.― Times Higher EducationSorber's history of the movement and society of the time provides an original framework for understanding the origins of the land-grant colleges and the nationwide development of these schools into the twentieth century.The land-grant ideal at the foundation of many institutions of higher learning promotes the sharing of higher education, science, and technical knowledge with local communities. This democratic and utilitarian mission, Nathan M. Sorber shows, has always been subject to heated debate regarding the motivations and goals of land-grant institutions. In Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt, Sorber uncovers the intersection of class interest and economic context, and its influence on the origins, development, and standardization of land-grant colleges.The first land-grant colleges supported by the Morrill Act of 1862 assumed a role in facilitating the rise of a capitalist, industrial economy and a modern, bureaucratized nation-state. The new land-grant colleges contributed ideas, technologies, and technical specialists that supported emerging industries. During the populist revolts chronicled by Sorber, the land-grant colleges became a battleground for resisting many aspects of this transition to modernity. An awakened agricultural population challenged the movement of people and power from the rural periphery to urban centers and worked to reform land-grant colleges to serve the political and economic needs of rural communities. These populists embraced their vocational, open-access land-grant model as a bulwark against the outmigration of rural youth from the countryside, and as a vehicle for preserving the farm, the farmer, and the local community at the center of American democracy UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501709739 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501709739 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501709739/original ER -