Assignment: Higher Education, 1785-1890
Your readings describe the influences of national themes and local initiatives impacting historical foundations in higher education between 1785 and 1890. Some of the issues, themes, and initiatives include:
• The Land Grant Legacy.
• Agricultural and Technical Education.
• Competition and Cooperation in Scientific and Technical education.
• Women and Higher Education.
• Normal Schools.
• Commerce in the Collegiate Curriculum.
• The Modern University.
• Liberal Arts Colleges.
• Student Life.
• Coeducation and Women.
• College and Administration: The Large Scale Roots of Philanthropy.
• Interregional Philanthropy and Black Colleges.
• The Comprehensive American University.
Instructions
Compose a formal paper between two and three pages in length (not including the title and reference pages) evaluating the impact your selected topic had on the historical foundations of 1785 to 1890 as well as how it has impacted higher education today.
Graduate level writing requires adherence to APA format, must be free of mechanical and grammatical errors, and include at least one scholarly source in addition to the course text. References should support your thinking and be cited in-text as well as in the required reference page.