Roger L Geiger
Biographic Data
| ID | 307523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger L Geiger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger L |
| FAMILY NAME | Geiger |
| SIGNATURE | GEIGER R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4368-7354 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 295 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Evolution and Devolution of American Research Universities
This essay traced the historical process by which essential elements of scientific advancement coalesced to form the system of American research universities. Initially, knowledge inspired by the scientific ethos relied on ad hoc organizations but had no grounding in educational institutions. Such a foundation emerged first in German universities and then inspired a handful of American universities. They, in turn, nurtured and incorporated a syst…
Higher Education and the Department of Education
Exchange of Ideas: The Economy of Higher Education in Early America
Merit Exists, and So Does Inequality
Two books by celebrated scholars agree on the relationship between merit and inequality but come to wildly divergent conclusions. Journalist Adrian Wooldridge argues that meritocracy is fundamental to democratic civilization and that meritocratic systems must be expanded. Geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden argues that much of what we view as meritocratic achievement is unearned, determined largely by the “genetic lottery,” so meritocratic systems of…
Higher Education in the US and Abroad: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
At the start of the twentieth century, few Americans ever imagined getting a college degree. Less than 5 percent of children made it through high school, and approximately 1 percent of high school graduates enrolled in college. Two-year institutions were still a novelty, and four-year colleges catered to the 1 percent. 1 Those numbers have changed dramatically. We now live in a world where 94 percent of Americans believe some college is “very imp…
Mark Boonshoft. Aristocratic Education and the Making of the American Republic Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020
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History of Higher Education Annual: 2000
Ideas for the Ice Age
American Higher Education since World War II: A History
Research and Relevant Knowledge
Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class
This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century. It is a classic study of an American business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations as well as an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, supported various exclusive institutions that in the course of the twentieth century produced a national upper-class …
A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars by Andrew Hartman
A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, by Andrew Hartman. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2015. 342 pp. $30.00 US (cloth), $19.00 US (paper). What were the culture wars? Andrew Hartman provides a fairly bounded definition of this amorphous phenomenon, which is not the least accomplishment of this thorough study. His first chapter depicts the challenge to posed by the liberating trends of the 1960s and the new (meaning…
The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II
History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II
The Riddle of the Valley
Universities and State Policy Formation: Rationalizing a Nanotechnology Strategy in Pennsylvania
Technology-based economic development programs have become a salient feature of the state policy landscape since the 1980s. While much research exists on the topic, little attention has been given to the processes of policy formation. State programs have moved towards high technology areas emphasized at the federal level over the past decades, and nanotechnology became one of the latest targets. This paper examines the eight-year process through …
The Quest For ‘Economic Relevance’ by US Research Universities
Real crisis or unpleasant realities
Beyond Technology Transfer: US State Policies to Harness University Research for Economic Development
The American College in the Nineteenth Century
The American College in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Roger L. Geiger. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 363. $49.95.) Students of the history of higher education in the nineteenth century should have little difficulty recalling the names Frederick Rudolph, Richard Hofstadter, Walter P. Metzger, John S. Brubacher, and Willis Rudy. Their narrative histories, among others written in the 1950s and 1960s, have provided and co…
Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrell
Funding Science in America: Congress, Universities, and the Politics of the Academic Pork Barrel
The Making of the Modern University: Intellectual Transformation and the Marginalization of Morality . Julie A. Reuben
What Happened after Sputnik? Shaping University Research in the United States
The Price of Excellence: Universities in Conflict during the Cold War Era
Research and Relevant Knowledge
Research and Relevant Knowledge: American Research Universities since World War II
The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education. Research and Relevant Knowledge follows Geiger's earlier volume on American research universities from 1900 to 1940. This second work is the first study to trace this momentous development in the post-World War II period. It describes how the federal government first relied on university scient…
Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class
This proper Philadelphia story starts with the city's golden age at the close of the eighteenth century. It is a classic study of an American business aristocracy of colonial stock with Protestant affiliations as well as an analysis of how fabulously wealthy nineteenth-century family founders in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, supported various exclusive institutions that in the course of the twentieth century produced a national upper-class …
To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940
American Foundations and Academic Social Science, 1945?1960
Organized Research Units—Their Role in the Development of University Research
At the end of the Second World War it became apparent that the center of gravity of the international scientific community had shifted to the United States-a momentous change fully symbolized by the harnessing of atomic energy. In the ensuing years it became increasingly evident that the preeminence of American science had not been produced adventitiously by the destruction wrought upon Continental seats of learning, by the emigration to the Unit…
Beyond Technology Transfer: US State Policies to Harness University Research for Economic Development
Science, Universities, and National Defense, 1945-1970
René Worms, l'organicisme et l'organisation de la sociologie
Geiger Roger, Essyad Marie-France, Besnard Philippe. René Worms, l'organicisme et l'organisation de la sociologie. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1981, 22-3. Sociologies françaises au tournant du siècle. Les concurrents du groupe durkheimien. Etudes réunies par Philippe Besnard., sous la direction de Philippe Besnard. pp. 345-360
Milking the Sacred Cow: Research and the Quest for Useful Knowledge in the American University since 1920
The American university is now roughly a century old,1 even though there exists no particular date to mark this auspicious anniversary. One hundred years ago, the great experiments of Daniel Coit Gilman at Johns Hopkins and Andrew D. White at Cornell had not only survived and sunk roots, but had also begun to exert an influence on other leading universities. The American Ph.D., first awarded by Yale in 1861, had by the 1880s become commonplace, i…
La sociologie dans les écoles normales primaires: Histoire d'une controverse
Geiger Roger, Besnard Philippe, Essyad Marie-France. La sociologie dans les écoles normales primaires. Histoire d'une controverse. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1979, 20-1. Les durkheimiens. Etudes et documents réunis par Philippe Besnard, sous la direction de Philippe Besnard. pp. 257-267
Organized Research Units--Their Role in the Development of University Research
What Happened after Sputnik? Shaping University Research in the United States
Research and Relevant Knowledge: American Research Universities since World War II
To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940
Journal Article To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900–1940. By Roger L. Geiger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. x + 325 pp. $27.50.) Get access Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 1078–1079, https://doi.org/10.2307…
The Dispersion of Academic Research in the 1980s
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRoger GeigerRoger Geiger is professor of education and Irwin Feller is director of the Graduate School of Public Policy and Administration and professor of economics at The Pennsylvania State University.Irwin FellerRoger Geiger is professor of education and Irwin Feller is director of the Graduate School of Public Policy and Administration and professor of economics at The Pennsylvania State University
Universities and State Policy Formation: Rationalizing a Nanotechnology Strategy in Pennsylvania
Technology-based economic development programs have become a salient feature of the state policy landscape since the 1980s. While much research exists on the topic, little attention has been given to the processes of policy formation. State programs have moved towards high technology areas emphasized at the federal level over the past decades, and nanotechnology became one of the latest targets. This paper examines the eight-year process through …
The Quest For ‘Economic Relevance’ by US Research Universities
Scholarship and Nation Building: The Universities of Strasbourg and Alsatian Society, 1870-1939
The American College in the Nineteenth Century
The American College in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Roger L. Geiger. (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 363. $49.95.) Students of the history of higher education in the nineteenth century should have little difficulty recalling the names Frederick Rudolph, Richard Hofstadter, Walter P. Metzger, John S. Brubacher, and Willis Rudy. Their narrative histories, among others written in the 1950s and 1960s, have provided and co…
The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford
A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars by Andrew Hartman
A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, by Andrew Hartman. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2015. 342 pp. $30.00 US (cloth), $19.00 US (paper). What were the culture wars? Andrew Hartman provides a fairly bounded definition of this amorphous phenomenon, which is not the least accomplishment of this thorough study. His first chapter depicts the challenge to posed by the liberating trends of the 1960s and the new (meaning…
Higher Education in American Society
Management and Higher Education since 1940: The Influence of America and Japan on West Germany, Great Britain, and France
Academic Quality Rankings of American Colleges and Universities
The institutionalization of sociological paradigms: Three examples from early French sociology
Utilizing a model of sociological paradigms which encompasses the cogency of sociological theories, their congruence with their cultural milieu and their reinforcement through institutionalization, this paper examines three interpretations of sociology which competed for recognition in France at the end of the nineteenth century. René Worms created institutions for the new field of new field of sociology, but did not possess a viable sociological…
The Origins of Crowd Psychology: Gustave Le Bon and the Crisis of Mass Democracy in the Third Republic . Robert A. Nye
Comparative Perspectives on the Academic Profession
L'Education en France
Durkheim et le socialisme. Jean-Claude Filloux
La sociologie dans les écoles normales primaires: Histoire d'une controverse
Geiger Roger, Besnard Philippe, Essyad Marie-France. La sociologie dans les écoles normales primaires. Histoire d'une controverse. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1979, 20-1. Les durkheimiens. Etudes et documents réunis par Philippe Besnard, sous la direction de Philippe Besnard. pp. 257-267
Future Educational Policies in the Changing Social and Economic Context. Report of the Meeting of the OECD Education Committee at Ministerial Level, October 19-20, 1978
Bureaucrats and Brainpower: Government Regulation of Universities . Paul Seabury
René Worms, l'organicisme et l'organisation de la sociologie
Geiger Roger, Essyad Marie-France, Besnard Philippe. René Worms, l'organicisme et l'organisation de la sociologie. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1981, 22-3. Sociologies françaises au tournant du siècle. Les concurrents du groupe durkheimien. Etudes réunies par Philippe Besnard., sous la direction de Philippe Besnard. pp. 345-360
Education and Society in Modern Europe. Fritz K. Ringer
After the Emergence: Voluntary Support and the Building of American Research Universities
IN 1908 AND 1909 science journalist Edwin E. Slosson visited and described fourteen of what he called Great American Universities. The volume of that title which he published still deserves place among most interesting books of this century on higher education. The members of his select group-California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin among state universities; Columbia, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale from descendents of …
To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940
Scholarship and Nation Building: The Universities of Strasbourg and Alsatian Society, 1870–1939
Scholarship and Nation Building: The Universities of Strasbourg and Alsatian Society, 1870-1939
To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940
Journal Article To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900–1940. By Roger L. Geiger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. x + 325 pp. $27.50.) Get access Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz University of Southern California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 1078–1079, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Academic Quality Rankings of American Colleges and Universities
The Nationalization of the Social Sciences
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas
To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940
American Foundations and Academic Social Science, 1945?1960
Milking the Sacred Cow: Research and the Quest for Useful Knowledge in the American University since 1920
The American university is now roughly a century old,1 even though there exists no particular date to mark this auspicious anniversary. One hundred years ago, the great experiments of Daniel Coit Gilman at Johns Hopkins and Andrew D. White at Cornell had not only survived and sunk roots, but had also begun to exert an influence on other leading universities. The American Ph.D., first awarded by Yale in 1861, had by the 1880s become commonplace, i…
To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universities, 1900-1940
The Dynamics of Private Higher Education in the United States: Mission, Finance and Public Policy
Organized Research Units—Their Role in the Development of University Research
At the end of the Second World War it became apparent that the center of gravity of the international scientific community had shifted to the United States-a momentous change fully symbolized by the harnessing of atomic energy. In the ensuing years it became increasingly evident that the preeminence of American science had not been produced adventitiously by the destruction wrought upon Continental seats of learning, by the emigration to the Unit…
Organized Research Units--Their Role in the Development of University Research
Management and Higher Education since 1940: The Influence of America and Japan on West Germany, Great Britain, and France
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