Description
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. A. J. Angulo recreates the controversy surrounding the founding and early years of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Whether presented as an alternative to or a repudiation of the prevailing classical liberal education, MIT was rejected as inherently inferior by college defenders. George Levesque offers a penetrating reappraisal of Yale president Noah Porter (1870-1886). Known almost solely for his role as a college defender, Porter is revealed as a vigorous scholar who became fixated with preserving the strengths of Yale College. As these matters were vigorously debated during these years, Porter's position was superseded by more powerful forces.
Table of Contents
The Initial Reception of MIT, 1860s-1880s; Noah Porter Revisited; For Education and Employment: The American Federation of Teachers and Academic Freedom, 1926-1941; Conservatism Goes to College: The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in the Rise of Conservative Student Networks; Nicholas Murray Butler, James McKeen Cattell, and the Educational Review : Footnote to a Famous Feud; Selected Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education; Contributors
