Evan Pugh S Penn State
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Evan Pugh S Penn State
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Author : Roger L. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2018-02-22
Evan Pugh S Penn State written by Roger L. Williams and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Evan Pugh became the first president of Pennsylvania’s Farmers’ High School—later to be known as The Pennsylvania State University—the small campus was in disrepair and in dire need of leadership. Pugh was young, barely into his 30s, but he was energetic, educated, and visionary. During his tenure as president he molded the school into a model institution of its kind: America’s first scientifically based agricultural college. In this volume, Roger Williams gives Pugh his first book-length biographical treatment. Williams recounts Pugh’s short life and impressive career, from his early days studying science in the United States and Europe to his fellowship in the London Chemical Society, during which he laid the foundations of the modern ammonium nitrate fertilizer industry, and back to Pennsylvania, where he set about developing “upon the soil of Pennsylvania the best agricultural college in the world” and worked to build an American academic system mirroring Germany’s state-sponsored agricultural colleges. This last goal came to fruition with the passage of the Morrill Act in 1862, just two years prior to Pugh’s death. Drawing on the scientist-academic administrator’s own writings and taking a wide focus on the history of higher education during his lifetime, Evan Pugh’s Penn State tells the compelling story of Pugh’s advocacy and success on behalf of both Penn State and land-grant colleges nationwide. Despite his short life and career, Evan Pugh’s vision for Penn State made him a leader in higher education. This engaging biography restores Pugh to his rightful place in the history of scientific agriculture and education in the United States.
Evan Pugh
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Evan Pugh written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Education categories.
Frederick Watts And The Founding Of Penn State
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Author : Roger L. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2021-04-26
Frederick Watts And The Founding Of Penn State written by Roger L. Williams and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic, social, and political standing of Pennsylvania’s farmers. After being elected founding president of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in 1851, he used his position to advocate vigorously for the establishment of an agricultural college that would employ science to improve farming practices. He went on to secure the charter for the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania, which would eventually become the Pennsylvania State University. This biography explores Watts’s role in founding and leading Penn State through its formative years. Watts adroitly directed the school as it was sited, built, and financed, opening for students in 1859. He hired the brilliant Evan Pugh as founding president, who, with Watts, quickly made it the first successful agricultural college in America. But for all his success in launching the institution, Watts nearly brought it to the brink of closure through a series of ruinous presidential appointments that led to an abandonment of the land-grant focus on agriculture and engineering. Watts’s influence in the agricultural modernization movement and his impact on land-grant education in the United States—both in his role with Penn State and later as US commissioner of agriculture—made him a leader in the history of agricultural and higher education. Roger L. Williams’s compelling biography of Watts reestablishes him in this legacy, providing a balanced analysis of his missteps and accomplishments.
Frederick Watts And The Founding Of Penn State
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Author : Roger L. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-15
Frederick Watts And The Founding Of Penn State written by Roger L. Williams and has been published by Penn State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with categories.
Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic, social, and political standing of Pennsylvania's farmers. After being elected founding president of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in 1851, he used his position to advocate vigorously for the establishment of an agricultural college that would employ science to improve farming practices. He went on to secure the charter for the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, which would eventually become the Pennsylvania State University. This biography explores Watts's role in founding and leading Penn State through its formative years. Watts adroitly directed the school as it was sited, built, and financed, opening for students in 1859. He hired the brilliant Evan Pugh as founding president, who, with Watts, quickly made it the first successful agricultural college in America. But for all his success in launching the institution, Watts nearly brought it to the brink of closure through a series of ruinous presidential appointments that led to an abandonment of the land-grant focus on agriculture and engineering. Watts's influence in the agricultural modernization movement and his impact on land-grant education in the United States--both in his role with Penn State and later as US commissioner of agriculture--made him a leader in the history of agricultural and higher education. Roger L. Williams's compelling biography of Watts reestablishes him in this legacy, providing a balanced analysis of his missteps and accomplishments.
The Land Grant Colleges And The Reshaping Of American Higher Education
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Author : Roger L. Geiger
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
The Land Grant Colleges And The Reshaping Of American Higher Education written by Roger L. Geiger and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Education categories.
This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of America's land-grant colleges and universities, created by the most important piece of legislation in higher education. The story is divided into five parts that provide closer examinations of representative developments.Part I describes the connection between agricultural research and American colleges. Part II shows that the responsibility of defining and implementing the land-grant act fell to the states, which produced a variety of institutions in the nineteenth century. Part III details the first phase of the conflict during the latter decades of the nineteenth century about whether land colleges were intended to be agricultural colleges, or full academic institutions. Part IV focuses on the fact that full-fledged universities became dominant institutions of American higher education. The final part shows that the land-grant mission is alive and well in university colleges of agriculture and, in fact, is inherent to their identity.Including some of the best minds the field has to offer, this volume follows in the fine tradition of past books in Transaction's Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series.
This Is Penn State An Insider S Guide To The University Park Campus
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language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
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Profile Fiscal Year 1989
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Author : National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Profile Fiscal Year 1989 written by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U.S.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Communicable diseases categories.
National Educators Workshop Update 93
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language : en
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Release Date : 1994
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Nih Public Advisory Groups
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Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Committee Management Staff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Nih Public Advisory Groups written by National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Committee Management Staff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Public health advisory groups categories.
Vols. for 1970- include Roster of members, formerly issued separately.
Nih Advisory Committees
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Author : National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Committee Management Staff
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Nih Advisory Committees written by National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Committee Management Staff and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Professional Review Organizations categories.
Describes the authority, structure, functions, frequency of meetings, and membership of the NIH advisory committees.