Cornell : a history, 1940-2015

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

In their history of Cornell since 1940, Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick examine the institution in the context of the emergence of the modern research university. The book examines Cornell during the Cold War, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, antiapartheid protests, the ups and downs of va...

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Main Authors: Altschuler, Glenn C. (Author), Kramnick, Isaac (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Series:EBL-Schweitzer
Subjects:
Cornell University > History.
Cornell University
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Electronic books.
History
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Table of 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.

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