AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION
HISTORY OF
AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION
AHRD 670
FALL SEMESTER, 2007
SEPTEMBER 3, SEPTEMBER 10, and 17
DESIRED LEARNING OUTCOMES - Students will be able to summarize six major periods of American Higher Education as identified by the Instructor. The summary of each period will include the primary purposes of higher education, key individuals, the descriptors and names of noteworthy institutions, the types of students educated, the curriculum, the roles of the faculty and the administration, characteristics of student life, and the role of government.
REQUIRED STUDENT ACTIVITY
Two or more students will be responsible for a 75-minute oral presentation and paper on one of the six periods. Necessary references are available in Wilson Hall 113 from 7:30 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on days that University offices are open. References may be checked out from 4:00 p.m. on one day to 8:30 a.m. the next work day.Presentations should address all of the points in the desired learning outcomes and include relevant points and names from the list below. Written papers are due the week after the oral presentation. Students should provide the Instructor with two hard copies papers of their paper; one copy for grading and the other to be reviewed by future students.
Major Periods
| Before 1636 | 1636 - 1776 | 1777 - 1865 |
| 1866 - 1917 | 1918 - 1963 | 1964 - present |
History papers from 1999-2007 are located in Wilson Hall
113.
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IMPORTANT POINTS
| Carnegie Commission on Higher Education | Chataugua Movement |
| Dartmouth Case | Free University |
| Great Books | Greco-Roman Influences |
| Lernfreiheit and Lehrfreihart | Medieval Contributions |
| Morrill Acts | National Defense Education Act |
| Oxford and Cambridge | Serviceman's Readjustment Act |
| Statement on Academic Freedom and Tenure | Student Activism |
| Trivium and Quadrivium | Truman Commission Report |
| Wingspread Report | Wisconsin Idea |
IMPORTANT PEOPLE
| Aristotle | James B. Angell |
| John Dewey | W.E.B. DuBois |
| Charles W. Eliot | Abraham Flexner |
| Daniel Coit Gilman | William Rainey Harper |
| Mark Hopkins | Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Clark Kerr | John Newman |
| Plato | Benjamin Rush |
| Socrates | Henry Tappan |
| George Tickner | Booker T. Washington |
| Francis Wayland | Andrew White |
| Ernest Boyer |
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REFERENCES
Brubacher, J.S. and W. Rudy. (1997). Higher education in transition.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. (4th ed.).
Cohen, A.M. (1998). The shaping of American higher education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc.
Geiger, R. L., Ed. (2000). The American College in the Nineteenth Century. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
Goodchild, L.F. and H.S. Wechsler. (1989). The history of higher education. ASHE Reader Series. Needham Heights, MA: Ginn Press.
Hofstadter, R. and W. Smith. (1961). American higher education: A documentary history. Chicago: University of Chicago. (Volumes 1 and 2).
Lucas, C.J. (1994). American higher education: A history. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Rudolph, F. (1990). The American college and university: A history. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. (2nd ed.).
Westmeyer, P. (1997). An analytical history of American higher education. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishers (2nd ed.).