The rise of the research university : a sourcebook / edited by Louis Menand, Paul Reitter, and Chad Wellmon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Menand, Louis, editor.

Reitter, Paul, editor.

Wellmon, Chad, 1976- editor.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Universities and colleges--History--19th century--Sources.

Universities and colleges.

Universities and colleges--United States--History--19th century--Sources.

Universities and colleges--Germany--History--19th century--Sources.

Education, Higher--Germany--Philosophy.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--United States--Philosophy.

Philosophy.

History.

United States.

Education, Higher--United States--German influences.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Education, Higher--German influences.

Education, Higher--Philosophy.

Germany.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

ix, 395 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Summary:

The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have recorded it are scattered across many archives and, in many cases, have yet to be translated into English. With this book, Paul Reitter, Chad Wellmon, and Louis Menand bring a wealth of these important texts together, assembling a fascinating collection of primary sources many translated into English for the first time that outline what would become the university as we know it. The editors focus on the development of American universities such as Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the Universities of Chicago, California, and Michigan. Looking to Germany, they translate a number of seminal sources that formulate the shape and purpose of the university and place them next to hard-to-find English-language texts that took the German university as their inspiration, one that they creatively adapted, often against stiff resistance. Enriching these texts with short but insightful essays that contextualize their importance, the editors offer an accessible portrait of the early research university, one that provides invaluable insights not only into the historical development of higher learning but also its role in modern society.

Contents:

German research universities. Report to King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Germany / Friedrich Gedike

On the importance of Protestant universities in Germany / Johann David Michaelis

What is universal history and why study it? An inaugural academic lecture / Friedrich Schiller

Occasional thoughts on German universities in the German sense / Friedrich Schleiermacher

A plan, deduced from first principles, for an institution of higher learning to be established in Berlin, connected to and subordinate to an academy of sciences / J. G. Fichte

Lectures on the method of academic study / F. W. J. Schelling

On Germany's educational system / Wilhelm von Humboldt

Americans abroad and returning. Letters to Thomas Jefferson and Edward Everett / George Ticknor and George Bancroft

American colleges and German universities / Richard Theodore Ely

On German universities / Henry Tappan

German universities: a narrative of personal experience / James M. Hart

American adaptations. The Morrill Act

The utility of universities / Daniel Coit Gilman

Opening exercises / G. Stanley Hall

The relations of the national and state governments to advanced education / Andrew D. White

The university and democracy / William Rainey Harper

Undergraduate education in the university. The new education / Charles William Eliot

Inaugural address / Noah Porter

Liberty in education / Charles William Eliot

The new departure in college education, being a reply to president Eliot's defence of it / James McCosh

On the future of our educational institutions / Friedrich Nietzsche

Diversity and inclusion: female university students. Diversity and inclusion: introduction

Higher schools for girls and their mission: companion essay / Helene Lange

Women at the German universities: letters to the editor of the nation / J.B.S. and M.F.K

Decree on the admission of women to universities

General education. General education: introduction

Editorial: a focus for freshmen / Charles Sears Baldwin

The new freshman course in Columbia College / John J. Coss

General education / Robert Maynard Hutchins

The higher learning in a democracy / Harry D. Gideonse.

Notes:

Some texts translated from German originals.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226414683

022641468X

9780226414713

022641471X

OCLC:

944087598