Building Americas First University

Author : George E. Thomas
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812235159
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building America's First University written by George E. Thomas and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than a guide, this is a thorough and engaging study of a great American institution."--Choice

Author : Michael M. Crow
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421417243
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing the New American University written by Michael M. Crow and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical blueprint for reinventing American higher education. America’s research universities consistently dominate global rankings but may be entrenched in a model that no longer accomplishes their purposes. With their multiple roles of discovery, teaching, and public service, these institutions represent the gold standard in American higher education, but their evolution since the nineteenth century has been only incremental. The need for a new and complementary model that offers broader accessibility to an academic platform underpinned by knowledge production is critical to our well-being and economic competitiveness. Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University and an outspoken advocate for reinventing the public research university, conceived the New American University model when he moved from Columbia University to Arizona State in 2002. Following a comprehensive reconceptualization spanning more than a decade, ASU has emerged as an international academic and research powerhouse that serves as the foundational prototype for the new model. Crow has led the transformation of ASU into an egalitarian institution committed to academic excellence, inclusiveness to a broad demographic, and maximum societal impact. In Designing the New American University, Crow and coauthor William B. Dabars—a historian whose research focus is the American research university—examine the emergence of this set of institutions and the imperative for the new model, the tenets of which may be adapted by colleges and universities, both public and private. Through institutional innovation, say Crow and Dabars, universities are apt to realize unique and differentiated identities, which maximize their potential to generate the ideas, products, and processes that impact quality of life, standard of living, and national economic competitiveness. Designing the New American University will ignite a national discussion about the future evolution of the American research university.

Author : Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476632480
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Loyalist Conscience written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom of speech was restricted during the Revolutionary War. In the great struggle for independence, those who remained loyal to the British crown were persecuted with loss of employment, eviction from their homes, heavy taxation, confiscation of property and imprisonment. Loyalist Americans from all walks of life were branded as traitors and enemies of the people. By the end of the war, 80,000 had fled their homeland to face a dismal exile from which few would return, outcasts of a new republic based on democratic values of liberty, equality and justice.

Author : Katherine L. Carroll
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988690
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Schools, Making Doctors written by Katherine L. Carroll and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, medical educators intent on transforming American physicians into scientifically trained, elite professionals recognized the value of medical school design for their reform efforts. Between 1893 and 1940, nearly every medical college in the country rebuilt or substantially renovated its facility. In Building Schools, Making Doctors, Katherine Carroll reveals how the schools constructed during this fifty-year period did more than passively house a remodeled system of medical training; they actively participated in defining and promoting an innovative pedagogy, modern science, and the new physician. Interdisciplinary and wide ranging, her study moves architecture from the periphery of medical education to the center, uncovering a network of medical educators, architects, and philanthropists who believed that the educational environment itself shaped how students learned and the type of physicians they became. Carroll offers the first comprehensive study of the science and pedagogy formulated by the buildings, the influence of the schools’ donors and architects, the impact of the structures on the urban landscape and the local community, and the facilities’ privileging of white men within the medical profession during this formative period for physicians and medical schools.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvard Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Craig Steven Wilder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608194027
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ebony and Ivy written by Craig Steven Wilder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading African-American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery and the American academy, revealing that our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.

Author : David J. Neuman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118330196
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities written by David J. Neuman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential information for the design of college anduniversity facilities Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities,Second Edition is your one-stop reference for the essentialinformation you need to confidently begin the planning process andsuccessfully complete the design of college and universitybuildings, large or small, on time and within budget. Award-winningarchitect and planner David J. Neuman and a roster ofindustry-leading contributors share their firsthand knowledge toguide you through all aspects of planning higher educationfacilities, including learning centers, academic buildings andprofessional schools, scientific research facilities, housing,athletics and recreation facilities, social and support facilities,and cultural centers. The book combines up-to-date coverage ofessential issues related to campus planning, programming, andbuilding design guidelines with detailed project examples. This new edition offers: Numerous photographs, diagrams, plans, and sections Updated project examples, including several buildings completedin the last decade Up-to-date coverage of sustainability and technologyissues A new chapter on historic preservation, rehabilitation, andadaptive use of existing buildings New material on the influence of interdepartmentalcollaboration and renewed communication on the built environmentfor campuses This conveniently organized quick reference is an invaluableguide for busy, dedicated professionals who want to get educatedquickly as they embark on a new project. Like every Building TypeBasics book, it provides authoritative, up-to-date informationinstantly and saves professionals countless hours of research.

Author : Harry L. Watson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022630051X
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the American Republic, Volume 1 written by Harry L. Watson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Building the American Republic tells the story of United States with remarkable grace and skill, its fast moving narrative making the nation's struggles and accomplishments new and compelling. Weaving together stories of abroad range of Americans. Volume 1 starts at sea and ends on the field. Beginning with the earliest Americans and the arrival of strangers on the eastern shore, it then moves through colonial society to the fight for independence and the construction of a federal republic. Vol 2 opens as America struggles to regain its footing, reeling from a presidential assassination and facing massive economic growth, rapid demographic change, and combustive politics.

Author : Harry C. Boyte
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566394581
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building America written by Harry C. Boyte and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors compare the "public spirited work [that] enabled diverse peoples to forge connection, gain a stake in the nation, and find intellectual challenges [to] a time when people are predominately consumers instead of producers." They offer many current examples which demonstrate encouraging changes.

Author : Jeffrey W. Cody
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622018716
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building in China written by Jeffrey W. Cody and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murphy's buildings were compromises - "new wine in old bottles" as he once called them - and the book uses those "bottles" as lenses through which to understand not only Murphy's quest to find a middle ground for his architecture in China, but also to gaze at a tumultuous society facing an uncertain future. Murphy's buildings were more than vessels for either aesthetic visions or technical expertise; inadvertently they became political emblems, as Chinese rulers such as Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yat-sen's son called on Murphy for city planning advice to complement their hopes for urban reconstruction."--Jacket.