The “Other Jeffersons” and the State University Idea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9012569 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eldon L Johnson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 127-150 |
| Publication date | 1987-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1546 • E-ISSN: 1538-4640 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00221546.1987.11778237 |
| OpenAlex | W2325707979 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
tions are little known and woefully neglected. Only a few professional historians could quickly recall anyone besides Thomas Jefferson; yet he was certainly not the beginning and had good company, both predecessors and successors. That company helped shape the ideas and made the choice of institution that, as an alternative to the colonial college, was to lead to the guarantee of at least one public institution of higher education in every state (the Morrill Act of 1862). The essential ideas and even several institutions preceded Jefferson's innovations in Virginia. As early as 8 January 1790, President Washington made clear to Congress the options that had to be faced-whether the undergirding of the new nation would be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by any expedients [20, p. 494]. The other expedients won out, not by Congressional action but by the continuation of the state response already begun in North Carolina and Georgia and by the steady evolution of ideas and actions of many unsung movers and shakers. Who were they besides Jefferson? There were early makers of opinion and policy, including the inside academic spokesmen, who are deliberately excluded here, and their successors, who made the new type university possible in twenty states before the Congress found among the other expedients the land-grant leverage for committing all states to a minimum of state
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| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
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