Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: roger l geiger

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  • HISTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION ANNUAL: 1998
    ROGER L. GEIGER
    Published in 1998, this is Volume 18 of the Perspectives on the History of Higher Education annual which includes a collection of 7 articles on The Land-Grant Act and American Higher Education: Context and Consequences. ...

    $1,280.00

  • HISTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION ANNUAL: 1996
    ROGER L. GEIGER
    A collection of articles and review essays from the year 1996 that make up Volume 16 of the annual publication by The Pennsylvania State University ...

    $1,280.00

  • HISTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION ANNUAL: 2000
    ROGER L. GEIGER
    A collection of articles and review essays from the year 2000 that make up Volume 20 of the annual publication by The Pennsylvania State University. ...

    $1,280.00

  • IDEAS FOR THE ICE AGE
    ROGER L. GEIGER / ‎MAX LERNER
    Ideas for the Ice Age is a companion volume to Max Lerner's classic work Ideas Are Weapons. Both were written mostly in the 1930s, as products of a period when the democratic idea was under heavy siege from totalitarian ideologies of the right and left., In its focus, Ideas for the Ice Age is a study of the task of democracy in a revolutionary era, an enterprise that has taken ...

    $1,280.00

  • CURRICULUM, ACCREDITATION AND COMING OF AGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    ROGER L. GEIGER
    This latest volume in Roger Geiger's distinguished series on the history of higher education begins with a rare glimpse into the minds of mid-nineteenth century collegians. Timothy J. Williams mines the diaries of students at the University of North Carolina to unearth a not unexpected preoccupation with sex, but also a complex psychological context for those feelings. Marc A. ...

    $1,280.00

  • TO ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE
    ROGER L. GEIGER
    American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacy of American science. Although they emerged as universities in the late nineteenth century, the incorporation of research as a distinct part of their mission largely occurred after 1900. To Advance Knowledge relates how these institutions, by 1940, advanced from provincial outposts in the world of knowle...

    $1,280.00

  • RESEARCH AND RELEVANT KNOWLEDGE
    ROGER L. GEIGER
    The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education. Research and Relevant Knowledge follows Geiger's earlier volume on American research universities from 1900 to 1940. This second work is the first study to trace this momentous development in the post-World War II period. It ...

    $1,420.00

  • AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE POSTWAR ERA, 1945-1970
    ROGER L. GEIGER, NATHAN M. SORBER, AND CHRISTIAN K. ANDERSON
    After World War II, returning veterans with GI Bill benefits ushered in an era of unprecedented growth that fundamentally altered the meaning, purpose, and structure of higher education. This volume explores the multifaceted and tumultuous transformation of American higher education that occurred between 1945 and 1970, while examining the changes in institutional forms, curricu...

    $1,040.00

  • PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    ROGER L. GEIGER
    Volume Twenty-Five of Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, the silver anniversary edition, offers three fresh contributions to the understanding of American higher education in the nineteenth century and three historical perspectives on topics of contemporary concern.The divergent paths of antebellum colleges in the North and South have long been recognized. Stephen...

    $800.00

  • ICONIC LEADERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    ROGER L. GEIGER
    Iconic leaders are those who have become symbols of their institutions. This volume of historical studies portrays a collection of college and university presidents who acquired iconic qualities that transcend mere identification with their institution.The volume begins with Roger L. Geiger's observation that creating and controlling one's image requires managing publicity. And...

    $1,280.00

  • PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    ROGER L. GEIGER
    This volume of Perspectives opens with two contrasting perspectives on the purpose of higher education at the dawning of the university age-perspectives that continue to define the debate today. A. J. Angulo recreates the controversy surrounding the founding and early years of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Whether presented as an alternative to or a repudiation of ...

    $1,280.00

  • PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF HIGHER EDUCATION
    ROGER L. GEIGER
    The early twentieth century witnessed the rise of middle-class mass periodicals that, while offering readers congenial material, also conveyed new depictions of manliness, liberal education, and the image of business leaders. "Should Your Boy Go to College?" asked one magazine story; and for over two decades these middle-class magazines answered, in numerous permutations, with ...

    $860.00