Cornell : a history, 1940-2015 / Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altschuler, Glenn C., author.

Kramnick, Isaac, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cornell University--History.

Cornell University.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 525 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Institutions, like individuals, develop narratives about themselves. Cornell constructed its sense of self, of how it was special and different, on the eve of World War II, when America defended democracy from fascist dictatorship. Cornell's fifth president, Edmund Ezra Day, and Carl Becker, its preeminent historian, discerned what they called a Cornell "soul," a Cornell "character," a Cornell "personality," a Cornell "tradition"-and they called it "freedom." The history of Cornell since World War II, Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick believe, is in large part a set of variations on the narrative of freedom and its partner, responsibility, the obligation to others and to one's self to do what is right and useful, with a principled commitment to the Cornell community-and to the world outside the Eddy Street gate. Book jacket.

Contents:

Building a research university

The death of in loco parentis

The Cold War at Cornell

The bureaucratic university and its discontents

Race at Cornell

The wars at home

The Rhodes years

Academic identity politics

Political engagement, divestment, and Cornell's two-China policy

Into the twenty-first century

The new normal in student life

Going global.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801444258

080144425X

OCLC:

879583389