Appendix. A Graphical Portrait of American Higher Education in the Twentieth Century

2011 ◽  
pp. 235-238
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Higher Education

Teaching Religious Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene V. Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Literacy ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Contemplative Pedagogy ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Teaching About Religion ◽  
The Ideal

Teaching about religion in American higher education has been shaped by multiple contexts, from the personal and institutional through the national and international. One persistent question concerns the purposes of teaching about religion, from Christian character formation to broad religious literacy as a prerequisite for informed citizenship. As the number of departments grew throughout the twentieth century, fundamental disagreements about the purposes of collegiate study of religion, the ideal curriculum, and the role of the teacher persisted. Contemporary movements, like advocating for religious literacy, “contemplative pedagogy,” and the push for infusing “spirituality” into higher education actually reprise earlier arguments. The field remains divided on several fundamental issues.

The Attack on Higher Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Musto
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
Arts And Humanities

American higher education is under attack today as never before. A growing right-wing narrative portrays academia as corrupt, irrelevant, costly, and dangerous to both students and the nation. Budget cuts, attacks on liberal arts and humanities disciplines, faculty layoffs and retrenchments, technology displacements, corporatization, and campus closings have accelerated over the past decade. In this timely volume, Ronald Musto draws on historical precedent - Henry VIII's dissolution of British monasteries in the 1530s - for his study of the current threats to American higher education. He shows how a triad of forces - authority, separateness, and innovation - enabled monasteries to succeed, and then suddenly and unexpectedly to fail. Musto applies this analogy to contemporary academia. Despite higher education's vital centrality to American culture and economy, a powerful, anti-liberal narrative is severely damaging its reputation among parents, voters, and politicians. Musto offers a comprehensive account of this narrative from the mid-twentieth century to the present, as well as a new set of arguments to counter criticisms and rebuild the image of higher education.

University Cultural Wars: Rival Protestant Pieties in Early Twentieth-Century Princeton

2002 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 735-764
Author(s):  
P. C. KEMENY
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Secular Culture ◽  
Liberal Protestantism ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Undergraduate Programme ◽  
The University ◽  
Conservative Protestants

Contrary to conventional wisdom, liberal Protestants, not fundamentalists, attempted to preserve Princeton University's traditional religious mission during the rapid intellectual and social change reshaping American higher education in the early twentieth century. In fact, when fundamentalists in the university community demanded the secularisation of the undergraduate programme, liberal Protestants spurned their efforts. Although American liberal Protestantism gradually dissolved into the surrounding secular culture over the course of the twentieth century, the conflict between the rival pieties of liberal and conservative Protestants reveals how and why liberal Protestantism was able to maintain hegemony over one key institution of American culture – the university – well into the mid-twentieth century.

Introduction

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Loss
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Lyndon Johnson ◽  
National Leaders ◽  
Political Commitments ◽  
Franklin Roosevelt ◽  
Do So ◽  
American State

This chapter lays out the history and background of the federal government's growing involvement in American higher education, arguing that the latter had emerged as a predominant “parastate” in the twentieth century. Situated between citizens and the state, completely beholden to neither party but expected and committed to serve both, higher education proved perfectly suited for the task. The potential for higher education's ideas and individuals to migrate into the heart of society proved particularly seductive to state builders. That higher education could be used to shape citizens' political commitments resonated with national leaders, such as Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, who wanted to build a new and more powerful state but had to do so using homegrown materials, all the more effective if they were locally produced. From such stuff was the American state made.

The Early Years of the Jewish Presence at the University of Illinois

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-245
Author(s):  
Winton U. Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Characteristic Form ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Jewish Students ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

For over two centuries, the College was the characteristic form of higher education in the United States, and the College was closely allied to the church in a predominantly Protestant land. The university became the characteristic form of American higher education starting in the late nineteenth Century, and universities long continued to reflect the nation's Protestant culture. By about 1900, however, Catholics and Jews began to enter universities in increasing numbers. What was the experience of Jewish students in these institutions, and how did authorities respond to their appearance? These questions will be addressed in this article by focusing on the Jewish presence at the University of Illinois in the early twentieth Century. Religion, like a red thread, is interwoven throughout the entire fabric of this story.

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