The university and the people : envisioning American higher education in an era of populist protest
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The university and the people : envisioning American higher education in an era of populist protest
（Studies in American thought and culture / series editor, Paul S. Boyer）
University of Wisconsin Press, c2011
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Envisioning American higher education in an era of populist protest
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The University and the People chronicles the influence of Populism a powerful agrarian movement on public higher education in the late nineteenth century. Revisiting this pivotal era in the history of the American state university, Scott Gelber demonstrates that Populists expressed a surprising degree of enthusiasm for institutions of higher learning. More fundamentally, he argues that the mission of the state university, as we understand it today, evolved from a fractious but productive relationship between public demands and academic authority. Populists attacked a variety of elites professionals, executives, scholars and seemed to confirm academia s fear of anti-intellectual public oversight. The movement s vision of the state university highlighted deep tensions in American attitudes toward meritocracy and expertise. Yet Populists also promoted state-supported higher education, with the aims of educating the sons (and sometimes daughters) of ordinary citizens, blurring status distinctions, and promoting civic engagement. Accessibility, utilitarianism, and public service were the bywords of Populist journalists, legislators, trustees, and sympathetic professors. These academic populists encouraged state universities to reckon with egalitarian perspectives on admissions, financial aid, curricula, and research. And despite their critiques of college ivory towers, Populists supported the humanities and social sciences, tolerated a degree of ideological dissent, and lobbied for record-breaking appropriations for state institutions."
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