LEADER 04491nam 2200601 450 001 9910793416303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-3665-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501736650 035 $a(CKB)4100000008152834 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5763932 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002146746 035 $a(OCoLC)1100642604 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse74560 035 $a(DE-B1597)527509 035 $a(OCoLC)1096214269 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501736650 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5763932 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008152834 100 $a20190520d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe instrumental university $eadministering modernity in the postwar United States /$fEthan Schrum 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (310 pages) 225 0 $aHistories of American education 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2019. 311 $a1-5017-3664-7 311 $a1-5017-3666-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aIn The Instrumental University, Ethan Schrum provides an illuminating genealogy of the educational environment in which administrators, professors, and students live and work today. After World War II, research universities in the United States underwent a profound mission change. The Instrumental University combines intellectual, institutional, and political history to reinterpret postwar American life through the changes in higher education. Acknowledging but rejecting the prevailing conception of the Cold War university largely dedicated to supporting national security, Schrum provides a more complete and contextualized account of the American research university between 1945 and 1970. Uncovering a pervasive instrumental understanding of higher education during that era, The Instrumental University shows that universities framed their mission around solving social problems and promoting economic development as central institutions in what would soon be called the knowledge economy. In so doing, these institutions took on more capitalistic and managerial tendencies and, as a result, marginalized founding ideals, such as pursuit of knowledge in academic disciplines and freedom of individual investigators. The technocratic turn eroded some practices that made the American university special. Yet, as Schrum suggests, the instrumental university was not yet the neoliberal university of the 1970's and onwards in which market considerations trumped all others. University of California president Clark Kerr and other innovators in higher education were driven by a progressive impulse that drew on an earlier tradition grounded in a concern for the common good and social welfare. 410 0$aHistories of American education. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aEducation, Higher$xAims and objectives$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aUniversities and colleges$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aEducational change$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 610 $aClark Kerr, Gaylord Harnwell, research universities and economic development, american research universities,. 615 0$aEducation, Higher$xAims and objectives$xHistory 615 0$aUniversities and colleges$xHistory 615 0$aEducational change$xHistory 676 $a378.73 700 $aSchrum$b Ethan D.$01528489 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793416303321 996 $aThe instrumental university$93772118 997 $aUNINA