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EDHE 6510
April 4, 2008
- Next paper: can also submit via WebCT, May 2nd
- may attend Spring Banquet (EDHE Student Org.)
- w/ Pres. Bataille during class
- formal affair
Lecture: Emergent Nation
(see handout)
- SLIDE ONE
- (some review)
- expansion of the nation, formalization of various functions as a nation (hospitals, etc.)
- telegraph, railroad = exchange of ideas with the West
- SLIDE TWO
- should we have a National University? (idea from Washington)
- SLIDE THREE: Dartmouth Case
- first Supreme Court case in US Higher Ed
- private institution, designed to educate the public (public good)
- ruling: can't revoke the charter and interfere: there will be public and there will be private
- SLIDE FOUR: Harvard
- President Eliot
- was president of Harvard for 40 years (1869 - 1909)
- credited with pushing the idea of elective courses
- easier to be successful when you're there long enough to wait out the people who don't agree with you
- SLIDE FIVE: Women in Higher Ed
- Becky Ropers: "Gendered Futures in Higher Education" (book)
- large univ.'s didn't first open their doors to women, but created sister schools (Harvard had Radcliffe)
- when univ.'s went coed, they hired Deans of Women
- SLIDE SIX: Student Life
- students: it was regulated when they could leave campus
- public exhibits of literary talent before graduation
- SLIDE SEVEN: Transformation Era
- Congressman Justin Morrill = pushed the Morrill Act
- tried to pass several times and failed
- was passed once the South seceded and was no longer in Congress to protest it
- gave growth to today's public university system
- added things like material science and agriculture
- SLIDE EIGHT: Land-Grant U's
Lecture: Evolution of Faculty as a Career
(see handout)
- SLIDE 1
- German u's seen as prime place to get grad degree (for US faculty)
- W.B. DuBois started in Germany U. (three years), had to finish in US
- incorporation of science in curriculum, included in "every realm of knowledge"
- Wm. Rainey Harper's success tied to Rockefeller
- SLIDE 2
- significance of university presses
- faculty dismissal for "subversive" or nonconformist ideas (or not agreeing with the university philosophy on various topics)
- balance of teaching and research models (for faculty)
- faculty as self-regulated system
- responsible for hiring, dismissing, etc. other faculty
- idea of campus as a place to pursue truth
- Iranian president (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) speaking at Columbia U. last year: similar controversy
- SLIDE 3
- SLIDE 4
- Jane Stanford: how the university was started, RR money, controversy over municipal ownerships of railroads; ruled with an iron fist; new book suggests she was murdered
- The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford, by Robert Cutler, ISBN: 978-0804747936
- SLIDE 5
- conflict between intellectual freedom and donors
- SLIDE 6
- AAUP: main focus is to keep the professoriate intact and to promote and support intellectual freedom
- now more of a professor advocacy group
- has lost a lot of ground and influence as an organization
- SLIDE 7
- WWII influence: faculty with German backgrounds might be dismissed
- today, Nevada still has a loyalty oath
Lecture: Transformation Era
(see handout and two timelines)
- SLIDE 1
- federal funding for higher ed
- SLIDE 2: growth and philanthropy
- what sparked alumni interest in institution?
- SLIDE 3: rise of professional students
- earlier, women were admitted partially to increase enrollment figures
- accreditation for licensure
- SLIDE 4
- separate but equal: blacks admitted to some separate medical schools
- SLIDE 5
- SLIDE 6
- criticism with Flexner report, accreditation
- create a monopoly in medical association?
- SLIDE 7
- purpose of accreditation
- quality
- uniformity (standard)
- SLIDE 8
- SLIDE 9
- Lavigne: quality and admission requirements, duplicate college programs, etc. (article a couple of years ago)
- SLIDE 10
- SLIDE 11
- are accred. agenices overstepping bounds, trying to run universities?
- SLIDE 12
- undergrad ed suffers because TAs teach courses (research model)
- idea of "student-centeredness" (particularly related to undergrads)
- trying to have it both ways: reputation of research inst. with emphasis on teaching
- SLIDE 13...(see handout)
- SLIDE ?
- role of the president (1890, Ohio State ad)
- role in fundraising
- managing finances
- administration of business of institution
- dealing with change
- SLIDE ?
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