Books by Roger L. Geiger

The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education

American research universities are part of the foundation for the supremacy of American science

This volume of Perspectives opens with two contrasting perspectives on the purpose of higher education at the dawning of the university age--perspectives that continue to define the debate today

The early twentieth century witnessed the rise of middle-class mass periodicals that, while offering readers congenial material, also conveyed new depictions of manliness, liberal education, and the image of business leaders

Volume Twenty-Five of Perspectives on the History of Higher Education, the silver anniversary edition, offers three fresh contributions to the understanding of American higher education in the nineteenth century and three historical perspectives on topics of contemporary concern

Beginning in the twentieth century, American faculty increasingly viewed themselves as professionals who were more than mere employees

Offers three fresh contributions to the understanding of American higher education in the nineteenth century. This work contains a review essay that sheds light on the experience of co-eds in post-bellum universities and normal schools, while another essay discusses the university presidency.

Provides historical studies touching on contemporary concerns - gender, high-ability students, and academic freedom. The authors discuss the nuanced changes that occurred to the image of college at the turn of the century and offer an important corrective to stereotypes about gender relations in nineteenth-century coeducational colleges.

The rise of American research universities to international pre-eminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education. This work traces this momentous development in the post-World War II period.

This work relates how American research universities, by 1940, advanced from provincial outposts in the world of knowledge to leaders in critical areas of science. It examines the pre-conditions for the development of a university research role, which include the formation of academic disciplines.

Recreates the controversy surrounding the founding and early years of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

An authoritative one-volume history of the origins and development of American higher educationThis book tells the compelling saga of American higher education from the founding of Harvard College in 1636 to the outbreak of World War II. The most in-depth and authoritative history of the subject available, The History of American Higher Education traces how colleges and universities were shaped by the shifting influences of culture, the emergence of new career opportunities, and the unrelenting advancement of knowledge.Roger Geiger, arguably today's leading historian of American higher education, vividly describes how colonial colleges developed a unified yet diverse educational tradition capable of weathering the social upheaval of the Revolution as well as the evangelical fervor of the Second Great Awakening. He shows how the character of college education in different regions diverged significantly in the years leading up to the Civil War-for example, the state universities of the antebellum South were dominated by the sons of planters and their culture-and how higher education was later revolutionized by the land-grant movement, the growth of academic professionalism, and the transformation of campus life by students. By the beginning of the Second World War, the standard American university had taken shape, setting the stage for the postwar education boom.Breathtaking in scope and rich in narrative detail, The History of American Higher Education is the most comprehensive single-volume history of the origins and development of of higher education in the United States.

Beginning in the twentieth century, American faculty increasingly viewed themselves as professionals who were more than mere employees. This volume focuses on key developments in the long process by which the American professoriate achieved tenure, academic freedom, and a voice in university governance.

American universities are under increasing pressure to maximize their economic contributions. This book offers a rigorous and far-sighted explanation of this controversial and little-understood movement.

This book explains how market forces are profoundly affecting finance, undergraduate education, basic research, and participation in regional and national economic development at American universities.