TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gavazzi,Stephen M.
AU  - Gee,E.Gordon
AU  - Magrath,C.Peter
TI  - Land-grant universities for the future: higher education for the public good 
SN  - 9781421426860
AV  - LB2329.5 .G38 2018eb
U1  - 378/.05 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - State universities and colleges
KW  - United States
KW  - Agricultural colleges
KW  - Agricultural education
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Aims and objectives
KW  - Universités d'État
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Écoles d'agriculture
KW  - Enseignement agricole
KW  - Enseignement supérieur
KW  - Finalités
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - Higher
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index; Foreword / C. Peter Magrath -- The land-grant study, campus-community relationships, and the servant university -- The land grant institution and mission in service to communities -- Land grant strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats -- The impact of governing boards, elected officials, and accrediting bodies -- The critical role of the faculty -- Our students: vanguard into the community -- Charting the future of American public education
N2  - "Land-Grant Colleges and Universities occupy a special place in the landscape of American higher education. The concept of publicly funded agricultural and technical educational institutions began in the mid-nineteenth century with the Morrell Act that established grants of land to support these schools. They include four dozen of the largest and best established public universities in America. Their mission was a democratic and pragmatic one, to bring science, technology, agriculture, and the arts to the American people. Stephen M. Gavazzi and E. Gordon Gee, however, don't dwell in the past. The story they want to tell is of the present challenges to and future opportunities for these institutions. This book provides an analysis of land-grant universities--what their strengths and weaknesses are and what opportunities and threats they face. It is based on extensive interviews with higher education leaders, the authors' own research, and Gee's decades of experience leading these institutions. Their observations underscore the notion that the land-grant university of the twenty-first century must generate a sense of reassurance that the community's immediate interests are being served in tandem with those activities being recognized as vital to the future well-being of the community"--
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