The University of Pennsylvania Faculty: A Study in American Higher Education

1961 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Richard H. Shyrock
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The University

scholarly journals The University of Pennsylvania Faculty: a Study in American Higher Education

1960 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 408
Author(s):  
E. V. Pullias ◽  
Richard H. Shryock
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The University

scholarly journals The University of Pennsylvania Faculty: A Study in American Higher Education

AAUP Bulletin ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 573
Author(s):  
Thelma Smith Miner ◽  
Richard H. Shryock
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The University

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.

The University Rock Ensemble: Popular music learning and drumming in higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-262
Author(s):  
Haley J. Nutt
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Ensemble Learning ◽  
North American ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Music Learning ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The University

This article provides a descriptive study of the FSU Rock Ensemble to demonstrate the value of providing inclusive popular music-based ensemble learning and opportunities in higher education. Beginning with an autoethnographic study of my experiences as a drummer in – and eventually director of – the non-auditioned ensemble, followed by a consideration of the attitudes articulated by several other drummers who recently participated in the ensemble, I analyse how musicians learn a traditionally non-academic music in an academic space. I conclude with a critical assessment of challenges that the group faced, with the hope that such considerations are useful for universities interested in establishing similar ensembles. Overall, the inclusive nature of the Rock Ensemble facilitated interactions that I argue are advantageous within the current climate of North American higher education, allowing students, drummers and non-drummers alike, unprecedented opportunities to perform music they love, forge new relationships and engage with the local community.

Service Learning: The Peace Corps, American Higher Education, and the Limits of Modernist Ideas of Development and Citizenship

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-505
Author(s):  
David S. Busch
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Peace Corps ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Work Abroad ◽  
The University

In the early 1960s, Peace Corps staff turned to American colleges and universities to prepare young Americans for volunteer service abroad. In doing so, the agency applied the university's modernist conceptions of citizenship education to volunteer training. The training staff and volunteers quickly discovered, however, that prevailing methods of education in the university were ineffective for community-development work abroad. As a result, the agency evolved its own pedagogical practices and helped shape early ideas of service learning in American higher education. The Peace Corps staff and supporters nonetheless maintained the assumptions of development and modernist citizenship, setting limits on the broader visions of education emerging out of international volunteerism in the 1960s. The history of the Peace Corps training in the 1960s and the agency's efforts to rethink training approaches offer a window onto the underlying tensions of citizenship education in the modern university.

The First Campaign and the Paradoxical Transformation of Fundraising in American Higher Education, 1915–1925

2014 ◽  
Vol 116 (7) ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Bruce A. Kimball
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Business School ◽  
School Library ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Harvard Business School ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
University Archives ◽  
The University ◽  
Wealthy Donors

Background Comprehensive, multi-year mass fundraising campaigns in American higher education began with the Harvard Endowment Fund (HEF) drive, which extended from 1915 to 1925. Notwithstanding this prominence, the archival records of the campaign have never been studied closely, and in the absence of archival research, scholars have misunderstood the HEF campaign. According to the received and presentist view, the university president initiated the HEF campaign, which professional consultants then directed to a swift and successful conclusion, drawing on their expertise. Focus of study The fundamental purpose was to learn from the archives what actually happened in this pathbreaking campaign. The research soon revealed that the unpaid organizers had to negotiate virtually all aspects of this novel venture among competing and conflicting groups of alumni, units of the university, and university administrators, including the president. The purpose then became to understand the divergent values and interests of the participants and how those perspectives contributed to the new goals, strategies, tactics, and practices introduced by the campaign. Setting The research was conducted primarily in the Harvard University Archives and the Special Collections of Harvard Business School library. Research Design The archival records comprise some fifty three boxes containing about forty thousand unindexed sheets of letters, memos, drafts, minutes, accounts, pamphlets, and other materials reposited in the Harvard University Archives. A chronological and topical examination of these materials over the past five years provides the research for this essay, which also draws upon a review of related collections in the Harvard University Archives and the Special Collections of Harvard Business School library. Conclusions The research led to several surprising conclusions: that the landmark campaign failed to meet its goal, that professional consultants did not organize or run the campaign but emerged from it, that now long-standing features of university fundraising resulted less from deliberate planning than from contentious negotiations among conflicting groups, that the campaign prompted the university administration to centralize and control alumni affairs and development efforts for the first time, and, above all, that a central ideological tension arose between mass fundraising and the traditional approach of discretely soliciting wealthy donors. The unintended and unofficial outcome was to establish today's ubiquitous episodic pattern of continuous fundraising, in which mass comprehensive campaigns alternate with discrete solicitations of wealthy donors, whose dominant roles have never changed.

The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education

2001 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 1588
Author(s):  
Kathy J. Pulley ◽  
D. G. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
The University
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