Precipice or crossroads? :  where America's great public universities stand and where they are going midway through their second century / 
edited by Daniel Mark Fogel and Elizabeth Malson-Huddle. 
 - Albany :  State University of New York Press, Albany,  (c)2012. 
 - 1 online resource (288 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction /  Democracy, the West, and land-grant colleges /  The 1890 institutions in African American and American life /  The modern public university : its land-grant heritage, its land-grant horizon /  Commitments : enhancing the public purposes and outcomes of public higher education /  Challenges to viability and sustainability : public funding, tuition, college costs, and affordability /  University-based R and D and economic development : the Morrill Act and the emergence of the American research university /  From a land-grant to a world-grant ideal : extending public higher education core values to a global frame /  Statewide university systems : taking the land-grant concept to scale in the twenty-first century /  Creating the future : the promise of public research universities for America /  Challenges to equilibrium : the place of the arts and humanities in public research universities /  by Daniel Mark Fogel --  by Coy F. Cross --  by Carolyn Mahoney --  by E. Gordon Gee --  by Mark G. Yudof and Caitlin G. Callaghan --  by David Shulenburger --  by Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars --  by John K. Hudzik and Lou Anna K. Simon --  by Nancy L. Zimpher and Jessica Fisher Neidl --  by James J. Duderstadt --  by Daniel Mark Fogel. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781438444949 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Education, Higher--History.--United States<br/>State universities and colleges--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB2329  / .P743 2012