Selected Resources in Higher Education

Historical Sources

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International

redbullet History of Education. Microfiche Collection.

Multiunit set in microfiche based unpon holdings of Milbank Memorial Library, Teachers College, Columbia University. The primary European and North American education materials published between the 15th and 19th centuries are represented.

Memorial Library holds volumes (units) 1-10. The microfiche set with guides are located in the Microform center, 4th floor, Memorial Library.



redbulletHistory of Universities. Avebury, England: Avebury Pub. Co.

This annual publication, international in scope, traditionally includes reports from themed conferences in which it has participated; essays; and continues a bibliography pertinent to the history of universities, ed. John M. Fletcher.

Memorial Library Regular Size Stacks
Call number: LA173 H5

United States

redbulletHigher Education in Transition: A History of American Colleges and Universities, 1636-1968. John S. Brubacher and Willis Rudy. Rev. and enl. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.

In their revised and enlarged edition, 1968, Brubacher and Rudy identify the traditions and conditions influencing the founding of Harvard College in the 17th century to those shaping the patterns of American higher education more than 300 years later.

Memorial Library Regular Size Shelving
Call number: LA226 B75 1968

redbulletFlexner, Abraham.
Daniel Coit Gilman, Creator of the American Type of University. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.

Flexner considers those forces and attributes which enabled President Daniel Coit Gilman to organize Johns Hopkins University as a university and as a leading force in graduate education and research.

Memorial Library Cutter Collection
Call number: IKA G42 F63 Cutter

University of Wisconsin System

redbulletUniversity of Wisconsin System. Board of Regents.
Minutes of Meeting of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The title covers the proceedings of the governing board after the creation of the University of Wisconsin System. Earlier records are available at the Wisconsin State Historical Society.

Memorial Library Regular Size Stacks
Call number: LD6101 U65

redbullet Weinstein, Laurence.
Moving a Battleship with your Bare Hands: Governing a University System. Madison, WI: Magna Publications, 1993.

A former president and member of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System reflects upon his experiences in that role.

Memorial Library Regular Size Shelving
Call number: LD6096 W45 1993

University of Wisconsin

redbulletThe University of Wisconsin: A History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Volumes 1-2, 1848-1925, Merle Curti and Vernon Carstensen.
Volume 3, 1925-1945, E. David Cronon and John W. Jenkins, titled Politics, Depression, and War.

Memorial Library Regular Stacks
Call number: LD6128 C8

redbullet Meikeljohn, Alexander, 1872-1964.
The Experimental College. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1932.

Author-writer Meikeljohn describes the innovative educational program which he shaped and directed at the Madison campus, University of Wisconsin, from the late 1920's to the early 1930's.

Memorial Library Regular Size Stacks
Call number: LD6130 M4

redbulletHove, Arthur.
The University of Wisconsin: A Pictorial History. Arthur Hove, with the editorial assistance of Anne Biebel. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

The setting of the pictorial history is the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin from the early years before its founding to the time of the 1971 merger with the former State Universities. The photographs and images distinctively highlight the text.

Memorial Library Regular Size Stacks
Call number: LD6128 H68 1991


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