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The instrumental university : administering modernity in the postwar United States / Ethan Schrum. [electronic resource]

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Histories of American educationPublisher: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource (310 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781501736650 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Instrumental university : administering modernity in the postwar United States.DDC classification:
  • 378.73 23
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  • LA227.2 .S378 2019
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Contents:
Introduction : the instrumental university and American modernity -- The progressive roots of the instrumental university : public administration, city planning, and industrial relations -- Clark Kerr : leading proponent of the instrumental university -- The urban university as community service institution : Pennsylvania in the era of Gaylord P. Harnwell -- Instruments of technical cooperation? : American universities' institution building abroad -- A use of the University of Michigan : Samuel P. Hayes, Jr. and economic development -- Founding the University of California at Irvine : high modern social science and technocratic public policy -- Epilogue : critics of the instrumental university.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the instrumental university and American modernity -- The progressive roots of the instrumental university : public administration, city planning, and industrial relations -- Clark Kerr : leading proponent of the instrumental university -- The urban university as community service institution : Pennsylvania in the era of Gaylord P. Harnwell -- Instruments of technical cooperation? : American universities' institution building abroad -- A use of the University of Michigan : Samuel P. Hayes, Jr. and economic development -- Founding the University of California at Irvine : high modern social science and technocratic public policy -- Epilogue : critics of the instrumental university.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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