Prairie University

Prairie University
Title Prairie University PDF eBook
Author Robert E. Knoll
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 804
Release 2022-08-03
Genre History
ISBN 1496228669

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Founded in 1869, the University of Nebraska was given the awesome responsibility of educating a new state barely connected by roads and rail lines. Established as a comprehensive university, uniting the arts and sciences, commerce and agriculture, and open to all regardless of "age, sex, color, or nationality," it has as its motto Literis dedicata et omnibus artibus--dedicated to letters and all the arts. The University at first was confined to four city blocks and didn't have a building until 1871. Cows grazed the campus. But soon the high aspirations of the state began to be realized. Nebraska boasted the first department of psychology west of the Mississippi River, and its faculty included national prominent scholars like botanist Charles Bessey and linguist A. H. Edgren (later a member of the Nobel Commission). Willa Cather, Roscoe Pound, Mari Sandoz, and Louise Pound ranked among its early graduates. And it developed a reputation for excellence in collegiate athletics. Written by a beloved member of the faculty, this history shows both why Robert E. Knoll is so devoted to the University as well as the tests such devotion must endure. Its history is hardly one of placid growth and unimpeded progress. Its regents, administration, faculty, and students have periodically fought one another: sometimes over matters as crucial as the University's purpose, shape, and destination. More often, battles waged over personalities. It is to these personalities that Knoll directs most of his attention. The author focuses on the men and women who made a difference, for good or ill. He locates the University's place in the changing intellectual and academic context of the United States and charts its passage through hard times and prosperity. He notes the contributions of the University to Nebraska, from the early experiments in sugar beet cultivation to the national fame of its football team. Most important, its education of generations of Nebraskans has lifted state goals and achievement, and its outreach has made the University an international community.

Bibliographical Contributions from the Library of the University of Nebraska

Bibliographical Contributions from the Library of the University of Nebraska
Title Bibliographical Contributions from the Library of the University of Nebraska PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 462
Release 1918
Genre Bibliography
ISBN

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American Book Publishing Record

American Book Publishing Record
Title American Book Publishing Record PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1658
Release 1980
Genre Reference
ISBN

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Nebraska Blue Book

Nebraska Blue Book
Title Nebraska Blue Book PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 580
Release 1934
Genre Nebraska
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Dirty Knowledge

Dirty Knowledge
Title Dirty Knowledge PDF eBook
Author Julia Schleck
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 140
Release 2022
Genre Education
ISBN 1496229304

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Dirty Knowledge explores the failure of traditional conceptions of academic freedom in the age of neoliberalism. While examining and rejecting the increasing tendency to view academic freedom as a form of free speech, Julia Schleck highlights the problem of basing academic freedom on employment protections like tenure at a time when such protections are being actively eliminated through neoliberalism's preference for gig labor. The argument traditionally made for such protections is that they help produce knowledge "for the public good" through the protected isolation of the Ivory Tower, where "pure" knowledge is sought and disseminated. In contrast, Dirty Knowledge insists that academic knowledge production is and has always been "dirty," deeply involved in the debates of its time and increasingly permeated by outside interests whose financial and material support provides some research programs with significant advantages over others. Schleck argues for a new vision of the university's role in society as one of the most important forums for contending views of what exactly constitutes a societal "good," warning that the intellectual monoculture encouraged by neoliberalism poses a serious danger to our collective futures and insisting on deliberate, material support for faculty research and teaching that runs counter to neoliberal values.

Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971

Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Title Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 PDF eBook
Author New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher
Pages 544
Release 1979
Genre Library catalogs
ISBN

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Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries

Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries
Title Catalog of Government Publications in the Research Libraries PDF eBook
Author New York Public Library. Economic and Public Affairs Division
Publisher
Pages 676
Release 1972
Genre Government publications
ISBN

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