In the 1940s, Rutgers was a small liberal arts college for men. Today, it is a major public research university, a member of the Big Ten and of the prestigious Association of American Universities. In Rutgers since 1945, historian Paul G. E. Clemens chronicles this remarkable transition, with emphasis on the eras from the cold war, to the student protests of the 1960s and 1970s, to the growth of political identity on campus, and to the increasing commitment to big-time athletics, all just a few of the innumerable newsworthy elements that have driven Rutgers’s evolution.
After exploring major events in Rutgers’s history from World War II to the present, Clemens moves to specific themes, including athletics, popular culture, student life, and campus dissent. Other chapters provide snapshots of campus life and activism, the school’s growing strength as a research institution, the impact of Title IX on opportunities for women student
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"Rutgers since 1945 achieves two high purposes with distinction and eloquence: it richly recounts how an institution whose origins were private and pre-Revolutionary emerged in the late twentieth century as one of America’s best public research universities, and it deepens our understanding of the momentous developments that shaped and propelled all of higher education in the modern era. Professors and presidents are well represented in Paul Clemens’s book, but its distinguishing feature is an extensive, insightful portrait of students and student life, topics that are often neglected in college and university histories." -- Richard L. McCormick * President Emeritus-Rutgers University *
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Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments 1 Becoming a State University: The Presidencies of Robert Clothier, Lewis Webster Jones, and Mason Gross 2 Rutgers Becomes a Research University: The Presidency of Edward J. Bloustein 3 Negotiating Excellence: The Presidencies of Francis L. Lawrence and Richard L. McCormick 4 Student Life 5 Residence Hall Architecture at Rutgers: Quadrangles, High-Rises, and the Changing Shape of Student Life, by Carla Yanni 6 Student Protest 7 Research at Rutgers 8 A Place Called Rutgers: Glee Club, Student Newspaper, Libraries, University Press, Art Galleries 9 Women’s Basketball 10 Athletic Policy 11 Epilogue Notes Index
