Full Description
A collection of articles and review essays from the year 2000 that make up Volume 20 of the annual publication by The Pennsylvania State University.
Contents
Articles, Before and After Humboldt: European Universities Between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Robert Anderson, The Independent Intellectual as Academic Gadfly: One Variety of Anti-Academicism Hugh Hawkins, Rethinking Boundaries: The History of Women, Philanthropy, and Higher Education Andrea Walton, Retrospective:, A Not So Distant Mirror: Great Depression Writings on the Governance and Finance of Public Higher Education Richard Novak & David Leslie, Symposium Report:, Exploring Our Professional Backyards: Toward Writing Recent History of American Colleges and Universities Editor's Introduction Institutional Histories: State of the Art Writing Postwar Institutional Histories Roger L. Geiger David B. Potts W. Bruce Leslie, Review Essay:, Markets and History: Selective Admissions and American Higher Education Since 1950 Roger L. Geiger 93, Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education