The rise of the research university : a sourcebook - Chicago, USA : The University of Chicago Press , 2017 . - ix, 395 pages ; 24 cm

Some texts translated from German originals.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Occasional thoughts on German universities in the German sense / Report to King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Germany / On the importance of Protestant universities in Germany / What is universal history and why study it? An inaugural academic lecture / A plan, deduced from first principles, for an institution of higher learning to be established in Berlin, connected to and subordinate to an academy of sciences / Lectures on the method of academic study / On Germany's educational system / Letters to Thomas Jefferson and Edward Everett / American colleges and German universities / On German universities / German universities: a narrative of personal experience / The Morrill Act -- The utility of universities / Opening exercises / The relations of the national and state governments to advanced education / The university and democracy / The new education / Inaugural address / Liberty in education / The new departure in college education, being a reply to president Eliot's defence of it / On the future of our educational institutions / Diversity and inclusion: introduction -- Higher schools for girls and their mission: companion essay / Women at the German universities: letters to the editor of the nation / Decree on the admission of women to universities -- General education: introduction -- Editorial: a focus for freshmen / The new freshman course in Columbia College / General education / The higher learning in a democracy / Johann David Michaelis -- Friedrich Schiller -- Friedrich Schleiermacher -- J. G. Fichte -- F. W. J. Schelling -- Wilhelm von Humboldt -- George Ticknor and George Bancroft -- Richard Theodore Ely -- Henry Tappan -- James M. Hart -- Daniel Coit Gilman -- G. Stanley Hall -- Andrew D. White -- William Rainey Harper -- Charles William Eliot -- Noah Porter -- Charles William Eliot -- James McCosh -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Helene Lange -- J.B.S. and M.F.K -- Charles Sears Baldwin -- John J. Coss -- Robert Maynard Hutchins -- Harry D. Gideonse. German research universities. Friedrich Gedike -- Americans abroad and returning. American adaptations. Undergraduate education in the university. Diversity and inclusion: female university students. General education.

9780226414683 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226414713 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Universities and colleges--History--19th century--Sources.--United States--Germany
Education, Higher--Philosophy.--German influences.--Aims and objectives.

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