"A collection of essays by current and former leaders of The Ohio State University about the contributions that OSU continues to make as part of its century land-grant mission"--

This book should be of great interest to faculty members and students, as well as those parents, legislators, policymakers, and other area stakeholders who have a vested interest in the well-being of America’s original public universities.

And he issues a clarion challenge to this nation's political leaders to return to the fundamental tenets that have always undergirded the land-grant system as we fulfill the rational initiatives for higher education prescribed for the twenty-first century.