Nathan M. Sorber is Associate Professor of higher education administration at West Virginia University, USA

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• IntroductionPart 1: Change and Continuity in American Higher EducationSection Introduction1. The Academic Engineers 1900 – 1920: The First Generation of Higher Education Reformers2. Change and Continuity in American Higher Education in the Post-War EraPart 2: Systemic and Organizational InnovationSection Introduction3. Mergers in Higher Education: Historical Developments in US and International Contexts4. An “Administrative” Approach to Innovation: Two Teacher-College Presidents and Simplified Spelling in the Progressive Era5. “We Felt … that we were Talking to Old Friends”: Cooperation Among Catholic and Protestant Colleges, 1938 – 19456. The Morrill Act Disruption: The Land-Grant Idea and Six Major Reforms of American Higher EducationPart 3: Intellectual Shifts and Higher Education TransformationSection Introduction7. Progressivism, John Dewey and the University of Chicago Laboratory School: The Search for Community8. “To Make Liberal Men: Reclaiming Moral Philosophy in the Mid-Twentieth Century American University”Conclusion

Nathan M. Sorber is Associate Professor of higher education administration at West Virginia University, USA

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• IntroductionPart 1: Change and Continuity in American Higher EducationSection Introduction1. The Academic Engineers 1900 – 1920: The First Generation of Higher Education Reformers2. Change and Continuity in American Higher Education in the Post-War EraPart 2: Systemic and Organizational InnovationSection Introduction3. Mergers in Higher Education: Historical Developments in US and International Contexts4. An “Administrative” Approach to Innovation: Two Teacher-College Presidents and Simplified Spelling in the Progressive Era5. “We Felt … that we were Talking to Old Friends”: Cooperation Among Catholic and Protestant Colleges, 1938 – 19456. The Morrill Act Disruption: The Land-Grant Idea and Six Major Reforms of American Higher EducationPart 3: Intellectual Shifts and Higher Education TransformationSection Introduction7. Progressivism, John Dewey and the University of Chicago Laboratory School: The Search for Community8. “To Make Liberal Men: Reclaiming Moral Philosophy in the Mid-Twentieth Century American University”Conclusion

Nathan M. Sorber is Associate Professor of higher education administration at West Virginia University, USA

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• IntroductionPart 1: Change and Continuity in American Higher EducationSection Introduction1. The Academic Engineers 1900 – 1920: The First Generation of Higher Education Reformers2. Change and Continuity in American Higher Education in the Post-War EraPart 2: Systemic and Organizational InnovationSection Introduction3. Mergers in Higher Education: Historical Developments in US and International Contexts4. An “Administrative” Approach to Innovation: Two Teacher-College Presidents and Simplified Spelling in the Progressive Era5. “We Felt … that we were Talking to Old Friends”: Cooperation Among Catholic and Protestant Colleges, 1938 – 19456. The Morrill Act Disruption: The Land-Grant Idea and Six Major Reforms of American Higher EducationPart 3: Intellectual Shifts and Higher Education TransformationSection Introduction7. Progressivism, John Dewey and the University of Chicago Laboratory School: The Search for Community8. “To Make Liberal Men: Reclaiming Moral Philosophy in the Mid-Twentieth Century American University”Conclusion