Morrill Land-Grant Sesquicentennial Volume

FAIN: RZ-51402-11

University of Vermont and State Agricultural College (Burlington, VT 05405-0160)
Daniel M. Fogel (Project Director: April 2011 to September 2013)

Land Grant College and University presidents will compose essays that will create a volume which will focus on the historical perspectives on American cultural and intellectual history that contextualize the rise of public higher education in the United States both before and after the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862. This work will seek to deepen understanding of the role of America's public institutions of higher education in the development of the nation and of its capacity for scholarship, research, and innovation, while imagining a viable future for those institutions.

Associated Products

Precipice or Crossroads? Where America's Great Public Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway through Their Second Century (Book)
Title: Precipice or Crossroads? Where America's Great Public Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway through Their Second Century
Editor: Elizabeth Malson-Huddle
Editor: Daniel Mark Fogel
Abstract: Thirteen top experts in higher education address a broad range of issues central to the question of whether the quality of America's great public universities—and of American life and democracy—can be sustained.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/precipice-or-crossroads-where-americas-great-public-universities-stand-and-where-they-are-going-midway-through-their-second-century/oclc/778244904&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5614-precipice-or-crossroads.aspx
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Access Model: Book
Publisher: Albany: State University of New York Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9781438444932
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Precipice or Crossroads: A Symposium on the Future of Public Research Universities (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Precipice or Crossroads: A Symposium on the Future of Public Research Universities
Author: Daniel Mark Fogel, symposium host
Abstract: 27 speakers and panelists (including NEH chairman James Leach) address a wide variety of issues pertinent to the condition and long-term viability of America's great public research universities, including 1) Changing Institutional and Instructional Models; 2) The Role of Public Research Universities in the Total Educational System (including preK-12 and post-secondary, public and private); 3) Costs, Strategic Resource Investment, Finance, and Governance; 4) Student Opportunity: Tuition, Access, Affordability, and Diversity; and 5) Sustaining Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and the Arts.
Date Range: October 10-12, 2012
Location: University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
Primary URL: http://www.uvm.edu/~ues/precipice-or-crossroads/
Primary URL Description: Site includes a conference overview, participant biographies, written responses to key questions shared by panelists with each other in advance of the meeting, and full-length videos of all public lectures and panel sessions.

Precipice or Crossroads: A Symposium on the Future (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Precipice or Crossroads: A Symposium on the Future
Writer: NA
Director: CSPAN Videographers
Producer: CSPAN
Abstract: Video (with transcripts) broadcast multiple times on CSPAN covering the two closing sessions of the Symposium (3 hours) in their entirety.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.c-span.org/video/?308785-1/public-private-universities
Primary URL Description: Contains video of full sessions (3 hours) of the two closing sessions of the symposium Precipice or Crossroads, along with transcripts and brief speaker bios.
Access Model: Broadcast to CSPAN cable subscribers nationally and archived for viewing on the CSPAN Web site.
Format: Video

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