The instrumental university : education in service of the national agenda after World War II

The instrumental university : education in service of the national agenda after World War II / Ethan Schrum.

"[This] book shows how, in the post-World War II period, elite research universities moved away from their founding ideals and instead portrayed themselves as instruments for spurring economic development and solving social problems"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schrum, Ethan D. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States > History > 20th century.
Universities and colleges > United States > History > 20th century.
Educational change > United States > History > 20th century.
EDUCATION / Higher
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
Educational change
Universities and colleges
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the instrumental university and American modernity
  • The progressive roots of the instrumental university : public administration, city planning, and industrial relations
  • Clark Kerr : leading proponent of the instrumental university
  • The urban university as community service institution : Pennsylvania in the era of Gaylord P. Harnwell
  • Instruments of technical cooperation? : American universities' institution building abroad
  • A use of the University of Michigan : Samuel P. Hayes, Jr. and economic development
  • Founding the University of California at Irvine : high modern social science and technocratic public policy
  • Epilogue : critics of the instrumental university.

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