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American Higher Education:
Developments and Diversity over Four
Centuries
John R. ThelinFor GS 650: Preparing Future
FacultySeptember 14, 2015
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Exhibit A:
Going to College in America
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The College CampusAn American Tradition
College Building in Ohio: Muskingum College, 1914
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Dartmouth College, ca 1810 6
United States Military Academy, West Point, ca 1830
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Transylvania University 1888 8
Rice Institute Construction, Houston, 1918
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Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Part of the American Campus Tradition is Found Nearby in the Diversity of
Colleges in Kentucky
Draper Memorial Hall, Berea College, ca 1930
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Old Centre, Centre College, ca 1920 13
Promotional Poster for Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky
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University of Louisville, ca 1930 15
Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, ca 1950
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Bellarmine College Science Bldg, Louisville, Kentucky, ca 1956
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Book Cover, "Alice Lloyd on Caney Creek: A College for Appalachia"
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Chapel, Lindsey Wilson College, 2004 19
Steely Library, Northern Kentucky University
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The College on a Hill
The Ideal of the Liberal Arts
Campus
College on a Hill: Brown University, ca 1780
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Amherst College, ca 1840 23
The City on a Hill: Yale and New Haven 24
Dartmouth College Green, ca 1922 25
Massachusetts Row, Dartmouth College, ca 1940
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Gender and Higher Education
Popular Images of Women and Coeducation
Co-Ed Brand Oranges, Claremont, 1930s
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The State Universities of the Midwest
Big Campus in a Small Town
Indiana University Quadrangles, circa 1920s
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Indiana University Stadium and Campus, 1920s
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University of Michigan Football Poster, ca 1910
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University of Iowa Football Stadium 33
University of Minnesota Stadium, 1920s
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The Rise of College Sports in Kentucky
Early College Basketball in the South: Caldwell College Team, circa 1898
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Harvard vs Centre, 1921 at Soldiers' Field
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McLean Stadium Construction, University of Kentucky 1924
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McLean Stadium, University of Kentucky, artist's rendition 1924
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Memorial Coliseum, University of Kentucky, artist's rendition 1948
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Memorial Coliseum, University of Kentucky, 1951
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Mass Higher Education:
Sending a Nation to College
Course registration, Memorial Coliseum, University of Kentucky 1952
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A Forgotten American Custom:
The Free Standing Professional School
Medical School, University of Louisville, ca 1920
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A UNIQUE AMERICAN INSTITUTION:
THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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Maysville Daily Independent, May 4, 1966
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Maysville Daily Independent, 1966 52
Class of 1953 Graduates, LindseyWilson College
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The “Knowledge Factory”
Growth of the Multiversity
University of Louisville, ca 1950 55
The Knowledge Factory: Aerial View of Western Kentucky State Teachers
College, 1955
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The Knowledge Factory: Aerial View of the University of Kentucky, 1955
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Cener Court Condominiums, South Hill near UK, 2005
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Parking Structure Construction, University of Kentucky 2005
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South Hill construction near UK campus, 2005
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And now, some themes for our discussion:
Carnegie Classificationsaccess and exclusion
changing faculty rolesstandards and
standardizationinstitutional missions