Roger Geiger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3938188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Geiger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Geiger |
| SIGNATURE | GEIGER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8016-1669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Higher Education in the US and Abroad
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…
Funding Science in America
Funding Science in America
The Price of Excellence
Higher Education in American Society
Higher Education in American Society
The Academy in Crisis
Journal Article The Academy in Crisis: The Political Economy of Higher Education. Ed. by John W. Sommer. (Oakland: Independent Institute, 1995. xiv, 329 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 1-56000-182-8. Paper, $19-95, ISBN 1-56000-801-6.) Get access Roger Geiger Roger Geiger Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, De…
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
Research and Relevant Knowledge
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…
Millikan's School
Books in review
After the Emergence
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 …
Universities, Politicians, and Bureaucrats
La sociologie dans les écoles normales primaires
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
Research and Relevant Knowledge
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…
La sociologie dans les écoles normales primaires
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
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
Higher Education in American Society
La sociologie dans les écoles normales primaires
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
Universities, Politicians, and Bureaucrats
Books in review
After the Emergence
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 …
Millikan's School
Research and Relevant Knowledge
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…
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
Higher Education in American Society
Higher Education in American Society
The Academy in Crisis
Journal Article The Academy in Crisis: The Political Economy of Higher Education. Ed. by John W. Sommer. (Oakland: Independent Institute, 1995. xiv, 329 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 1-56000-182-8. Paper, $19-95, ISBN 1-56000-801-6.) Get access Roger Geiger Roger Geiger Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, De…
The Price of Excellence
Funding Science in America
Funding Science in America
Higher Education in the US and Abroad
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…
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