Sketches of the History of Dartmouth College and Moors' Charity School
Sketches of the History of Dartmouth College and Moors' Charity School

Author: John Wheelock

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-11

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9780656314454

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Excerpt from Sketches of the History of Dartmouth College and Moors' Charity School: With a Particular Account of Some Late Remarkable Proceedings of the Board of Trustees, From the Year 1770 to the Year 1815 Voted that Professor Smith be requested to preach at the Chapel, the ensuing year and that he be allowed the same sum in compensation as heretofore. Voted, that James Whee lock Esq. Be requested to apply to the peo le in this place, tc advance to Professor Smith what is equita le, on their part, or account of his preaching to the people and students. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Autocratic Academy
The Autocratic Academy

Author: Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2023-03-06

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1478024399

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Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy’s “corporatization” as one of its defining maladies. However, in The Autocratic Academy Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn argues that American colleges and universities have always been organized as corporations in which the power to rule is legally vested in and monopolized by antidemocratic governing boards. This institutional form, Kaufman-Osborn contends, is antithetical to the free inquiry that defines the purpose of higher education. Tracing the history of the American academy from the founding of Harvard (1636), through the Supreme Court’s Dartmouth v. Woodward ruling (1819), and into the twenty-first century, Kaufman-Osborn shows how the university’s autocratic legal constitution is now yoked to its representation on the model of private property. Explaining why appeals to the cause of shared governance cannot succeed in wresting power from the academy’s autocrats, Kaufman-Osborn argues that American universities must now be reincorporated in accordance with the principles of democratic republicanism. Only then can the academy’s members hold accountable those chosen to govern and collectively determine the disposition of higher education’s unique public goods.