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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