{"product_id":"the-instrumental-university-9781501736643","title":"The Instrumental University","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Instrumental University\u003c\/i\u003e, Ethan Schrum provides an illuminating genealogy of the educational environment in which administrators, professors, and students live and work today. After World War II, research universities in the United States underwent a profound mission change. \u003ci\u003eThe Instrumental University\u003c\/i\u003e combines intellectual, institutional, and political history to reinterpret postwar American life through the changes in higher education. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledging but rejecting the prevailing conception of the Cold War university largely dedicated to supporting national security, Schrum provides a more complete and contextualized account of the American research university between 1945 and 1970. Uncovering a pervasive instrumental understanding of higher education during that era, \u003ci\u003eThe Instrumental University \u003c\/i\u003eshows that universities framed their mission around solving social problems and promoting economic development as central institutions in what would soon be\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA striking feature of this important chapter in the history of US higher education is how networked the leaders were: this was an upper-class boys club of policy-oriented academics. This detailed book is instructive and penetrating in examining how the current academic world came to be.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEthan Schrum 's \u003ci\u003eThe Instrumental University\u003c\/i\u003e dissects an important, understudied unit that blossomed between 1945 and 1970 – the university based 'Organized Research Unit,' more familiar by its abbreviation, 'ORU.' Schrum takes readers on a fantastic voyage to see how some influential university presidents in conjunction with leaders of major foundations and selected faculty members collaborated to incorporate this new entity as a fixture in the established academic structure still familiar today.\u003c\/p\u003e * Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEthan Schrum's book is an important contribution to the literature on the development of American research universities after World War II. He offers a useful corrective to the assumption that the increasing corporatization of American universities in recent decades is due solely to the rise of neoliberalism and to the imposition by constituencies beyond the campus, particularly conservative politicians and business leaders, of a narrow economically driven conception of the mission of research institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e * The Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a fascinating, persuasive, and important book that provides a new perspective on history of the modern social sciences. It should interest anyone who wants to understand how universities got to where they are today.\u003c\/p\u003e * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Instrumental\u003cbr\u003e University and American Modernity \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Progressive Roots of the\u003cbr\u003e Instrumental University: Public\u003cbr\u003e Administration, City Planning,\u003cbr\u003e and Industrial Relations\u003cbr\u003e 2. Clark Kerr: Leading Proponent\u003cbr\u003e of the Instrumental University\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Urban University as Community\u003cbr\u003e Service\u003cbr\u003e Institution: Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e in the Era of Gaylord P. Harnwell\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"Instruments of Technical\u003cbr\u003e Cooperation\": American Universities'\u003cbr\u003e Institution Building Abroad\u003cbr\u003e 5. A Use of the University of Michigan:\u003cbr\u003e Samuel P. Hayes Jr. and Economic\u003cbr\u003e Development \u003cbr\u003e 6. Founding the University of California\u003cbr\u003e at Irvine: High Modern Social Science\u003cbr\u003e and Technocratic Public Policy\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Critics of the Instrumental\u003cbr\u003e University\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409336934743,"sku":"9781501736643","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781501736643.jpg?v=1730506468","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-instrumental-university-9781501736643","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}