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The Land-Grant Colleges and Universities in Human-Resource Development

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Mauriac, and probably several thousand other Frenchmen, have remarked that what worried them most about the United States and Russia was not the respects in which these countries differed but rather that they were fundamentally so much alike. If Mauriac had studied the history of the land-grant colleges and universities, he might have concluded that they were both the most Russian-like and the most thoroughly American sector of our education. Where else could one find schools so materialistically oriented or so (almost) successfully Jacksonian? To look at their history and their impact on American economic life over the past century is to examine a roaringly optimistic and an almost frighteningly successful endeavor to create the men—and the women—for a mass economy.

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  • Bowman, Mary Jean, 1962. "The Land-Grant Colleges and Universities in Human-Resource Development," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 22(4), pages 523-546, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:22:y:1962:i:04:p:523-546_06
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    1. Lee, Bommi & Heyneman, Stephen P., 2013. "International Organizations and the Future of Education Assistance," WIDER Working Paper Series 018, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Stephen P. Heyneman & Bommi Lee, 2013. "International Organizations and the Future of Education Assistance," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2013-018, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    3. Orkodashvili, Mariam, 2007. "Higher Education Funding Issues: U.S. / UK Comparison," MPRA Paper 16417, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Heyneman, Stephen P. & Lee, Bommi, 2016. "International organizations and the future of education assistance," International Journal of Educational Development, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 9-22.

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