TY - BOOK AU - Sorber,Nathan M. TI - Land-grant colleges and popular revolt: the origins of the Morrill Act and the reform of higher education SN - 9781501709739 AV - LB2329 .L363 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - United States -- KW - Land Grant Act of 1862 KW - State universities and colleges KW - Northeastern States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Educational change KW - Education, Higher KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Introduction : reconsidering the origins and early years of the land-grant college movement --; Experimentation in antebellum higher education --; Justin Morrill, the Land-Grant Act of 1862, and the birth of the land-grant colleges --; The land-grant reformation --; The new middle class and the state college ideal --; Progressivism and the rise of extension --; Coeducation and land-grant women --; Conclusion : land-grant memories, legacies, and horizons; 2; b N2 - "A history of the origins and early years of the land-grant colleges of the northeastern United States. Land-grant colleges of this region were not "farm schools," and, indeed, were meant to offer a service distinct from the practical education most readily available to (and most often romanticized by later scholars) young men in rural America. The land-grant schools were premised on scientific education, high academic standards, and the training of professionals. Focusing on several newly created institutions, as well as some colleges of the Colonial and Early Republic eras that became land-grant schools, the book explores the social, political, and economic forces that propelled the land-grant movement in the Northeast states and the states of the Midwest where practical education predominated. These broad regional trends point toward a fundamental tension in the Morrill Act itself, which left implementation to the states. Mixing the promotion of science and middle-class professionalism while at the same time serving a population keel on marketable skills, paying jobs, and social equity (all encapsulated in the Grange Movement of the same era), land-grant colleges were fraught with ideological and practical difficulties. (This lack of a unified mission was further highlighted by questions of inclusion and role of women and African Americans.) These divisions are nowhere more present than in the land-grant colleges of the Northeast, and thus these institutions deserve special attention in a literature that has often associated the Morrill Act with the Grange Movement and focused on the institutions of the Midwest"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1733977&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -