Böcker av Roger L. Geiger

The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education

American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacy of American science

This volume of Perspectives opens with two contrasting perspectives on the purpose of higher education at the dawning of the university age--perspectives that continue to define the debate today

The early twentieth century witnessed the rise of middle-class mass periodicals that, while offering readers congenial material, also conveyed new depictions of manliness, liberal education, and the image of business leaders

Volume Twenty-Five of Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, the silver anniversary edition, offers three fresh contributions to the understanding of American higher education in the nineteenth century and three historical perspectives on topics of contemporary concern

Beginning in the twentieth century, American faculty increasingly viewed themselves as professionals who were more than mere employees

Offers three fresh contributions to the understanding of American higher education in the nineteenth century. This work contains a review essay that sheds light on the experience of co-eds in post-bellum universities and normal schools, while another essay discusses the university presidency.

Provides historical studies touching on contemporary concerns - gender, high-ability students, and academic freedom. The authors discuss the nuanced changes that occurred to the image of college at the turn of the century and offer an important corrective to stereotypes about gender relations in nineteenth-century coeducational colleges.

The rise of American research universities to international pre-eminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education. This work traces this momentous development in the post-World War II period.

This work relates how American research universities, by 1940, advanced from provincial outposts in the world of knowledge to leaders in critical areas of science. It examines the pre-conditions for the development of a university research role, which include the formation of academic disciplines.

Recreates the controversy surrounding the founding and early years of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Beginning in the twentieth century, American faculty increasingly viewed themselves as professionals who were more than mere employees. This volume focuses on key developments in the long process by which the American professoriate achieved tenure, academic freedom, and a voice in university governance.