TY - GEN T1 - Land-grant colleges and popular revolt : the origins of the Morrill Act and the reform of higher education A1 - Sorber, Nathan M. LA - English PP - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1035770119 AB - "A history of the origins and early years of the land-grant colleges of the northeastern United States. Land-grant colleges of this region were not "farm schools," and, indeed, were meant to offer a service distinct from the practical education most readily available to (and most often romanticized by later scholars) young men in rural America. The land-grant schools were premised on scientific education, high academic standards, and the training of professionals. Focusing on several newly created institutions, as well as some colleges of the Colonial and Early Republic eras that became land-grant schools, the book explores the social, political, and economic forces that propelled the land-grant movement in the Northeast states and the states of the Midwest where practical education predominated. These broad regional trends point toward a fundamental tension in the Morrill Act itself, which left implementation to the states. Mixing the promotion of science and middle-class professionalism while at the same time serving a population keel on marketable skills, paying jobs, and social equity (all encapsulated in the Grange Movement of the same era), land-grant colleges were fraught with ideological and practical difficulties. (This lack of a unified mission was further highlighted by questions of inclusion and role of women and African Americans.) These divisions are nowhere more present than in the land-grant colleges of the Northeast, and thus these institutions deserve special attention in a literature that has often associated the Morrill Act with the Grange Movement and focused on the institutions of the Midwest"-- OP - 242 CN - LB2329.5 .S67 2018 SN - 9781501709739 SN - 1501709739 SN - 9781501712371 SN - 1501712373 SN - 9781501715174 KW - United States. : Land Grant Act of 1862. KW - Land Grant Act of 1862 (United States) KW - State universities and colleges : Northeastern States : History : 19th century. KW - Educational change : Northeastern States : History : 19th century. KW - Education, Higher : Northeastern States : History : 19th century. KW - Universités d'État : États-Unis (Nord-Est) : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Enseignement : Réforme : États-Unis (Nord-Est) : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - Enseignement supérieur : États-Unis (Nord-Est) : Histoire : 19e siècle. KW - EDUCATION : Higher. KW - Education, Higher KW - Educational change KW - State universities and colleges KW - Northeastern States KW - 1800-1899 KW - Northeastern United States, bureaucratized nation-state, resisting the transition to modernity, political and economic needs of rural communities, tri-part missions, class warfare of the late nineteenth century. KW - History ER -