Citizens or Cosmopolitans? Constructing Scientific Identity in the Early American College

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam R. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Public Support ◽  
National Service ◽  
Public Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early American ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Public Research University ◽  
American Research ◽  
Scientific Identity

Modern American scientific identity has its roots in the colleges of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using the botanical sciences as an example, this essay examines the conflicts between those who viewed scientists as cosmopolitan (or international) and those who viewed scientists as citizens (or servants) of the national state. Whereas today many American scientists claim a cosmopolitan identity, even as they decry steady declines in state aid, two centuries ago, they did just the opposite: to win public support, they quietly subsumed the ideals of cosmopolitanism within a commitment to national service, even as they deftly cultivated a new professional image rooted in a rhetoric of scientific internationalism. The construction of this new self-image was, I argue, a necessary precondition for the creation of the modern American research university—particularly the public research university—which sought to reconcile the competing ideals of scientific cosmopolitanism and citizenship.

State Policy and the Public Research University

1997 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan H. Frost ◽  
James C. Hearn ◽  
Ginger M. Marine
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Research University ◽  
Public Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Research University

Philanthropy and the Character of the Public Research University

2016 ◽  
pp. 28-58
Author(s):  
Larry Catá Backer ◽  
Nabih Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
Public University ◽  
State University ◽  
Public Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Strategic Philanthropy ◽  
Public Research University ◽  
Faculty Input ◽  
The University

Educational scholars have examined the relationship of philanthropy and its contributions to the public university. Yet, there has been little discussion of the influence of philanthropy on the governance space of the public research university, and specifically as conditional philanthropy may affect academic integrity and shared governance. In this chapter, we consider these larger issues in the context of a study of a recent case. Drawing on public records, interviews, and university documents, the chapter examines conditional donation of The Charles G. Koch Foundation (CKF) to the Florida State University (FSU). We suggest that the Koch Foundation gift appears to illustrate a new model of governance based philanthropy. It has done so by tying donations to control or influence of the internal governing mechanics of an academic unit of a public university. This model has generated controversy. Though there was substantial faculty and student backlash, the model appears to be evidence of a new philanthropic relationship between the public university and substantial donors, one in which donors may change the nature of traditional shared governance relationships within the university. We maintain that instances of such “new” strategic philanthropy require greater focus on and sensitivity to shared governance and faculty input as a way to ensure accountability, especially to preserve the integrity of the academic enterprise and its public mission where donors seek to leverage philanthropy into choices relating to faculty hires, courses and programs traditionally at the center of faculty prerogatives in shared governance.

A Leadership Approach for the New Millennium: A Case Study of UCLA's Bruin Leaders Project

NASPA Journal ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles L. Outcalt ◽  
Shannon K. Faris ◽  
Kathleen N. McMahon ◽  
Philip M. Tahtakran ◽  
Christopher B. Noll
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Research University ◽  
Leadership Theory ◽  
Public Research ◽  
Current Case ◽  
Leadership Model ◽  
Public Research University ◽  
New Millennium

The current case study investigates the application of a non-hierarchical leadership model at an urban public research university. Following a review of recent contributions to leadership theory, especially with regard to student development, the authors balance discussions of the values on which the program under review is based with descriptions of the practical structure of the program. In addition, they suggest means by which other campuses can tailor this program to their resources, opportunities, and needs. The case study concludes with a discussion of the program’s effect on students’ cognitive and social development.

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