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Book SynopsisLand-grant colleges and universities have a storied past. This book looks at their future. Land-grant colleges and universities occupy a special place in the landscape of American higher education. Publicly funded agricultural and technical educational institutions were first founded in the mid-nineteenth century with the Morrill Act, which established land grants to support these schools. They include such prominent names as Cornell, Maryland, Michigan State, MIT, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Texas A&M, West Virginia University, Wisconsin, and the University of Californiain other words, four dozen of the largest and best public universities in America. Add to this a number of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and tribal collegesin all, almost 300 institutions. Their mission is a democratic and pragmatic one: to bring science, technology, agriculture, and the arts to the American people. In this book, Stephen M. Gavazzi and E. Gordon Gee discuss present chall
Trade ReviewStephen Gavazzi, a professor at the Ohio State University, has partnered with West Virginia University president E. Gordon Gee to refocus the college debate. As the volume's title indicates, Gavazzi and Gee mainly discuss the state of land-grant universities, but their suggestions are more generally illuminating . . . a useful addition to a growing literature on how universities might best be made to serve the changing needs of American society.
—Christian Gonzalez,
National ReviewIn
Land-Grant Universities for the Future, authors Gavazzi and Gee explore the role of the modern land-grant university and the perception of land-grant university leaders around the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of these institutions and also offer a vision for how these universities can better serve their communities based on the covenant established in 1862. Readers will appreciate the inclusion of several relevant constituents, such as faculty and students, and will gain a better understanding of the workings of complex land-grant universities that can provide practical insights about how to approach challenges in higher education.
—Isaura J. Gallegos,
Harvard Educational ReviewTable of ContentsForeword, by C. Peter Magrath
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Whither the Land-Grant?
Chapter 1. The Land-Grant Study, Campus–Community Relationships, and the Servant University
Chapter 2. The Land-Grant Institution and Mission in Service to Communities
Chapter 3. Land-Grant Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
Chapter 4. The Impact of Governing Boards, Elected Officials, and Accrediting Bodies
Chapter 5. The Critical Role of the Faculty
Chapter 6. Our Students: Vanguard in the Community
Chapter 7. Charting the Future of American Public Education
Appendix A. Syllabus Land-Grant Universities: Mission and Leadership
Appendix B. National Institute of Food and Agriculture Land-Grant Colleges and Universities, 1862, 1890, and 1994
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