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Rutgers since 1945: A History of the State University of New Jersey
Paul G. E. Clemens
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In the 1940s, Rutgers was a small liberal arts college for men. Today, it is a major public research university, a member of the Big Ten and of the prestigious Association of American Universities. In Rutgers since 1945, historian Paul G. E. Clemens chronicles this remarkable transition, with emphasis on the eras from the cold war, to the student protests of the 1960s and 1970s, to the growth of political identity on campus, and to the increasing commitment to big-time athletics, all just a few of the innumerable newsworthy elements that have driven Rutgers’s evolution. After exploring major events in Rutgers’s ... Read more
In the 1940s, Rutgers was a small liberal arts college for men. Today, it is a major public research university, a member of the Big Ten and of the prestigious Association of American Universities. In Rutgers since 1945, historian Paul G. E. Clemens chronicles this remarkable transition, with emphasis on the eras from the cold war, to the student protests of the 1960s and 1970s, to the growth of political identity on campus, and to the increasing commitment to big-time athletics, all just a few of the innumerable newsworthy elements that have driven Rutgers’s evolution. After exploring major events in Rutgers’s ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Rivergate Regionals Collection
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813564210
SKU
V9780813564210
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About Paul G. E. Clemens
PAUL G. E. CLEMENS is a professor of history at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Uses of Abundance: A History of New Jersey’s Economy.
Reviews for Rutgers since 1945: A History of the State University of New Jersey
"Rutgers since 1945 achieves two high purposes with distinction and eloquence: it richly recounts how an institution whose origins were private and pre-Revolutionary emerged in the late twentieth century as one of America’s best public research universities, and it deepens our understanding of the momentous developments that shaped and propelled all of higher education in the modern era. Professors and ... Read more