LEADER 04472nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910961545803321 005 20240418054314.0 010 $a9786613486158 010 $a9781283486156 010 $a1283486156 010 $a9780299284633 010 $a0299284638 035 $a(CKB)2670000000187074 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000607808 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11376569 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607808 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10590656 035 $a(PQKB)11375340 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3445217 035 $a(OCoLC)816040483 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse16505 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3445217 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10537622 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL348615 035 $a(OCoLC)779881509 035 $a(Perlego)4512116 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000187074 100 $a20110316d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe university and the people $eenvisioning American higher education in an era of populist protest /$fScott M. Gelber 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2011 215 $aix, 268 p. $cill 225 1 $aStudies in American thought and culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780299284640 311 08$a0299284646 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Academic Populism -- 1. Preludes to Populism: Anti-Elitism and Higher Education, 1820-1885 -- 2. Scaling the Gilded Halls of the University: Populism and Campus Politics -- 3. The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number: Populism and Academic Access -- 4. Looking Forward: Populism and Economic Access -- 5. Producers and Parasites: The Populist Vision of College Curriculum -- 6. The Tastes of the Multitude: Populism, Expertise, and Academic Freedom -- 7. Watchdogs of the Treasury: Populism and Public Funding for Higher Education -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index. 330 8 $aThe University and the People chronicles the influence of Populism-a powerful agrarian movement-on public higher education in the late nineteenth century. Revisiting this pivotal era in the history of the American state university, Scott Gelber demonstrates that Populists expressed a surprising degree of enthusiasm for institutions of higher learning. More fundamentally, he argues that the mission of the state university, as we understand it today, evolved from a fractious but productive relationship between public demands and academic authority. Populists attacked a variety of elites-professionals, executives, scholars-and seemed to confirm academia's fear of anti-intellectual public oversight. The movement's vision of the state university highlighted deep tensions in American attitudes toward meritocracy and expertise. Yet Populists also promoted state-supported higher education, with the aims of educating the sons (and sometimes daughters) of ordinary citizens, blurring status distinctions, and promoting civic engagement. Accessibility, utilitarianism, and public service were the bywords of Populist journalists, legislators, trustees, and sympathetic professors. These "academic populists" encouraged state universities to reckon with egalitarian perspectives on admissions, financial aid, curricula, and research. And despite their critiques of college "ivory towers, " Populists supported the humanities and social sciences, tolerated a degree of ideological dissent, and lobbied for record-breaking appropriations for state institutions. 410 0$aStudies in American thought and culture. 517 3 $aEnvisioning American higher education in an era of populist protest 606 $aPublic universities and colleges$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aState universities and colleges$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPopulism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aPublic universities and colleges$xHistory 615 0$aState universities and colleges$xHistory 615 0$aPopulism$xHistory 676 $a378/.050973 700 $aGelber$b Scott M$0862501 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961545803321 996 $aThe university and the people$94359773 997 $aUNINA