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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
      • recruitment of faculty
  • 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?
      • athletics
  • 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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