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Description for The Modern Land-Grant University Hardcover. Editor(s): Sternberg, Robert J. Num Pages: 420 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1089.

In an increasingly competitive higher education environment, Americas public universities are seeking ways to differentiate themselves. This book suggests that a hopeful vision of what a university should be lies in a reexamination of the land-grant mission, the common system of values originally set forth in the Morrill Land Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890, which established a new system of practically oriented higher learning across the United States. While hard to define, these values are often expressed by the one hundred or so institutions that currently define themselves as land grants under the three pillars of research, teaching, and ... Read more

In order to understand the unique character of a modern land-grant institution, this book focuses especially but not exclusively on the multiple components of a single organization, Oklahoma State University, founded in 1890 and currently enrolling 35,000 students across five campuses. Contributors from across the university focus on what the land-grant mission means to them in their daily endeavors, whether that be crafting the undergraduate academic experience, stimulating research, or engaging with the community through extension activities. The twenty contributions are divided into four parts, exploring in turn the core mission of the modern land-grant university, the university environment, the universitys public value, and its accountability. The volume ends with an epilogue by the editor, which summarizes the values underlying the activities of land-grant institutions.

In a time of uncertainty in higher education, this volume provides a helpful overview of the many different types of value public universities bring to American society. It also offers a powerful vision of a future founded on land-grant ideas that will be inspiring to university administrators and trustees, other educational policymakers, and faculty and staff, especially those fortunate enough to be part of land-grant institutions.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
444
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557536778
SKU
V9781557536778
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Robert J. Sternberg is president of the University of Wyoming. He is past president of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences and also of the American Psychological Association. Before coming to Wyoming, he was provost and senior vice president of Oklahoma State University, where this book was conceived. Previously, he was dean of arts and sciences at ... Read more

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