Precipice or Crossroads?: Where America's Great Public Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway through Their Second Century

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A abrams, M.H., xlii, 246, 253–254 abstract knowledge, xxxv, 128, 151 Academically Adrift (arum and roksa), 101 Academic and Industrial Efficiency (cooke), 245 academics, support of, 95f, 215, 216, 226 access to education (inclusiveness). see also costs of attendance; diversity; minorities ; Pell grants; tuition constraint, as, 230 democracy and, xxii, 8 economic competitiveness and, 153 1890s institutions and, xiv, 12, 21 foreign nations and, 162 industrial classes and, xxiii, 7, 51, 52, 59, 194n2, 197, 243 middle class and, xxvi, 127, 222, 245, 247 Morrill act and, xxxii, 51, 53, 195n2 Ndea and, 195n3 neoliberalism and, 173 private universities and, xxix quality of education and, 182, 193 systemness and, xxxvi, 197–202, 210–214 21st century, 163–164 working classes and, 52–53, 74 world-grant ideal and, xxxii–xxxiii, 163–164, 175–176, 181, 184 accountability. see also regulation arts and humanities and, 249 funding, public and, 223–224, 227, 228, 229–231, 237 globalization and, 173, 175 student attitudes and, 99 systemness and, 210 21st century, 175 Voluntary system, 100–101 adams, John, 64 adams, Yolanda, 21 adaptation, 56–56, 183 administration and administrators. see also autonomy; bureaucracy arts and humanities and, 249 costs of, 109–110, 139, 225, 233 freedom and, 115, 257n3 globalization and, 173, 176 Index Note: an italicized f, n or t following a page number indicates a figure, endnote or table, respectively. 291 292 iNdeX reform of, 205–206, 225, 245, 257n3 systemness and, 198–199, 200, 202, 213, 215, 216–217, 218 tenure and, 184 world-grant ideal and, 182 admissions, 100, 153. see also enrollments aeronautical/aerospace engineering/industry , 20, 66, 131 african american history, 27 african americans (blacks), 2, 12, 15, 36, 37, 44, 82, 86. see also 1890 institutions ; historically black colleges and universities (HBcUs); minorities; individual African Americans aging populations, xxxviii, 70, 223, 224, 229, 236, 238 Agricultural Chemistry (Liebig), xxiii, 5 agricultural colleges, xxiii, 2, 4–8, 10, 11. see also specific colleges agriculture. see also experiment stations; extension activities; farmers; food; sustainability decline of, 7–8 democracy and, 2–3, 8, 13 doctoral degrees, 81 economic development and, 41, 42, 130–131, 218 18th century, 2–3 1890 institutions and, xxiv, 26–49, 82 funding and, 72, 74, 114, 236 land-grant institutions and, 218 Morrill act and, xxiii, 59–60, 82, 123, 127, 194n2, 195n3, 196n5, 218, 243 19th century, 3–8, 167 ranking schemes and, 180 science and engineering and, xxx, 187, 221, 222 tenure and, 252 water safety and, 187 world-grant ideal and, 163, 167, 168 akron (ohio), University of, 131 alabama, 9 alabama (Tuskegee University ), 18, 19–21, 37, 38, 39, 44, 45, 82 alabama a&M University, 18, 19, 22, 37, 43, 48 alcorn state University (Mississippi), 12, 17, 18, 22, 42 alcott, Bronson, 51 alexander, F. King, 94 american association of state colleges and Universities (aascU), 100 american council on education (ace), 196n8 american Historical association, 2, 247 a&M institutions, 123. see also specific institutions anchor institutions, 201–202, 214 anti-intellectualism, 249 apprenticeships, 137 aquaculture science and fisheries, 27, 39, 40, 41, 44, 47, 58 arizona state University, xxix, 105t arkansas, University of, at Pine Bluff (UaPB), 18, 23, 40 arts, xli–xlii, xliii, 33, 241–256. see also humanities; liberal education arum, richard, 101 asia, 172, 187, 188. see also specific countries assist models, xxxv, 187–188, 192 association of american Universities, 123, 154n5 association of Public and Land-grant Universities (aPLU), xiii, xiv, 39, 81, 100, 115, 123, 166, 203. see also National association of state Universities and Land-grant colleges (NasULGc) association of research directors (coordinators ) (ard), 39, 40 atkinson, richard c., 122 atlanta compromise speech (B.T. Washington ), 20 administration and administrators (cont’d.) Index 293 austin, J.L., 253 autonomy. see also decentralization accountability and, 227, 229–231 1890 institutions and, 46 funding, state and, xl, 224, 230, 239 systemness and, 199, 206, 215 tenure and, 248, 252–253 B baby boom, 69–70, 207–208 Bangguo, Wu, xxii Barnard, Henry, 51 Baum, sandy, 87, 116n12 Bayh-dole act (1980), xxxi, 134–135, 137, 155n18 Bell Telephone Laboratories, 228, 252 Bemidji state University (BsU) (Minnesota ), 217 Bercovitz, Janet, 136, 137, 138 “Bill Granting Lands for agricultural colleges.” see Morrill Land-grant act (1862) (Morrill act) Binghamton University (sUNY), 104t biomedical sciences, xxiv, 132, 133, 155n13. see also disease control; health biotechnology, 20, 26, 156n24 Birdseye, clarence, 244 black colleges and universities. see...