History and Archival Resources in Higher Education
Medical evaluation in the United States and Canada bulletin #4
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/eLibrary/docs/flexner_report.pdf
Yale Report
Excerpts of the Yale Report, composed in 1828
https://higher-ed.org/resources/Yale_Report.htm
A large PDF of the 1828 Yale Report
https://higher-ed.org/resources/Yale/1828_curriculum.pdf
The Morrill Land Grant Acts
Information about the 1862 Land-Grant Act which gave federal land to states to help pay for agriculture colleges
https://higher-ed.org/resources/morrill_acts.htm
ThePhilosophy of Liberal Education
The philosophy of liberal education, compiled by Andrew Chrucky
http://www.ditext.com/libed/libed.html
Smith-Lever Act
Learn about the Smith-Lever act, a compliment to the Land-Grant act of 1862
https://higher-ed.org/resources/smith.htm
Bankhead-Jones Act
The Bankhead-Jones also provided land to states to provide for agricultural education
https://higher-ed.org/resources/bankhead.htm
Information about the Sea Grant, providing states with a way to provide marine education to their citizens
https://higher-ed.org/resources/sea_grant.htm
GI Bill
Information about the GI Bill of
June 22, 1944 (Servicemen’s Readjustment Act)
https://higher-ed.org/resources/GI_bill.htm
Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963
Information about the Facilities Act of 1963, a bill to provide higher education facilities
https://higher-ed.org/resources/facilities_bill.htm
Higher Education Act of November 8, 1965
Focused on strenghtening the educational resources of our colleges and universities and to provide financial assistance to students in postsecondary and higher education.
https://higher-ed.org/resources/HEA.htm
1998 Amendments to the Higher Education Act
Amendments extending the programs of the Higher Education Act of 1965
http://www.ed.gov/policy/highered/leg/hea98/index.html
Carnegie Classification of Institutions
The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/classifications/
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
Information about the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act as amended on Nov. 21, 1996
http://regweb.unc.edu/official/FERPA/FERPA.html
CampusCrime: Clery Act and Legislative History
Information about the Clery Act, requiring colleges and universities to disclose crime statistics
http://campussafety.org/congress/cleryhistory.html
TheYale Corporation Charter and Legislation
(PDF)
https://higher-ed.org/resources/Yale/charter_legislation.pdf
Reporton University Reorganization
Committee On Educational Policy of the Yale Corporation, March 17, 1919(PDF)
https://higher-ed.org/resources/Yale/report_univ1919.pdf
A Repository for Primary Sources
(at the University of Idaho)
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html
Statements, Essays, and Speeches
- “CommunistsShould Not Teach in American Colleges” – May, 1949 by Raymond B. Allen, President of the University of Washington,Seattle
- Charles William Eliot on The Elective System,1885
- John Henry Newman: The Idea of A University,1854
- The Education of Henry Adams at Harvard University edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, 1918
- TheHigher Learning in America, by John Dewey, 1937
- Clark Kerr’s Inaugural Address as President of the University of California at Berkeley,1958
- AAUP Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure,1940
- LiberalEducation and the College Curriculum, by C.J. Ducasse
- The Higher Learning In America: A Memorandum On the Conduct of Universities By Business Men – A long essay, published in 1918 by the famous sociologist Thorstein Veblen, in which he discussed what he considered a necessary reorganization of American universities and colleges
- William J. Bennet: To Reclaim a Legacy: A report on the humanities in higher education – to the National Endowment of Humanities, November 1984
- G.Stanley Hall and the Study of Higher Education – an article in The Review of Higher Education by Les Goodchild
Collegeand University Histories and Archives
- Establishing the University of Virginia
- Archival Resourceson Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- History of Cornell University and Ezra Cornell
- History of Dartmouth College
- History of Harvard University
- History of Mount Holyoke College
- History of Oberlin College
- Historyof Oxford University
- History of Penn State University
- History of Stanford University
- History of University of California-Berkeley
- History of the University of Delaware
- History of William and Mary College, (Sir Christopher Wren Building)
- History of Winston Salem State University (with photos)
- History of the UNC System
- History of the University of Wisconsin
- Michigan State University Archives
- Northwestern University Archives
- Ohio State University Archives
- Private Higher Eduation in North Carolina
- Stanford University Archives
- University of Chicago Archives
- University of Illinois Archives
- University of Michigan archives and records
- University of Minnesota Archives
- University of Wisconsin Archives
- Archives and primary documents on women’s education at five New England institutions
- AERA-J/ASHE Higher Education Course Syllabi Project
- Evolution of Learning Assistance in Higher Education By Martha Casazza at National-Louis University, Illinois.
- Higher Education in the 1960’s – a class project at U. Iowa
- Russell Dennis (Bucknell University)
- Les Goodchild (University of Denver)
- Michael Pavel (Washington St. University)
- S. Sadi Seferoglu (Columbia University)
- Andrea Walton (Indiana University)
- Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia
- Historyof Higher Education Annual
- Milestones in the History of Academic Appointments in the U.S.
- Research on University Culture in the 1960’s
- Online Documents for the Study of U.S. Higher Education and Politics
- National Archives and Records Administration
- U.S. Higher Education – course syllabi
- American Higher Education: a Documentary History Edited by Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961
- The Carnegie Foundation History
- Subject Bibliography in the study of American Higher Education
- History and philosophy of financial aid
- Analysis of the 1998 Amendments to the Higher Education Act
- Analysis of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- Biography of James McCosh, President of Princeton University, 1868-1888
- Biography of Charles Eliot, President of Harvard University, 1869-1909
- Also, one cannot fully understand the context within which this unique system of higher education developed without a good sense of our goverment and political foundations. Please follow these links for useful information in these areas:
- Historical Documents of the U.S.
- Suffrage: The History of the Right to Vote – Foner,Eric and Garraty, John A. (1991). The Reader’s Companion to American History. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin. pages 1043-1047.
- Library of Congress “American Memory” Collections
- Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Articles of Confederation (1778)
- United States Constitution (1787)
- Bill of Rights (1789)
- The Gettysburg Address (1863)
- The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
- Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a Dream” speech (1963)
- CongressLink – a service for teachers and students of government, politics, civics, and history, developed by the Dirksen Congressional Center
- U.S. House of Representatives
- U.S. Senate
- American History Document Resource Center (1600-1699)
Faculty Web Pages for History of Higher Education
Other Useful Resources
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