Land-Grant Universities for the Future: Higher Education for the Public Good

by E. Gordon Gee and Stephen M. Gavazzi

Book Overview

Land-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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421426854
• ISBN13: 9781421426853
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"