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'Instruments of national purpose'. World War II and Southern higher education: Four Texas universities as a case study.

机译:“国家目的仪器”。第二次世界大战和南方高等教育:以德克萨斯州的四所大学为例。

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This dissertation considers the significance of the relationship between the federal government and U.S. higher education during World War II and the immediate postwar years, using four Texas universities (the University of Texas, Texas A&M, Baylor University, and the Rice Institute) as case studies. World War II and Cold War contexts of emergency and moral purpose were manifest in America's institutions of higher learning, which channeled their resources to assist a national agenda. Reciprocally, the federal government provided support to universities on unprecedented scales. This partnership was especially relevant to universities in the South, which had historically lagged behind their non-southern peers in research capability, had been more wary of outside influence, and had tended to stress regionalism over---if not at the expense of---nationalism. Yet despite the changes depicted in this study, a preexisting role of the southern university as serving one or more constituencies made the cooperation with the federal government less of a shift in the uses of the university than might otherwise be apparent. Among the topics that this study looks at in some depth are wartime financing of university research, curricular change, campus trainee programs, postwar veteran enrollments, the southern university as a trainer in so-called American values, and the impetus to assert these values. Of special note is the rise of defense-oriented research agendas and securing the revenues to sustain them. The partnership between the university and the federal government institutionalized a new a way of conducting university business that became so normative in just a few years after World War II as to seem irreversible. This dissertation shows the importance of this partnership at a group of universities outside the few high-profile institutions typically invoked as iconic or indicative of war-era federal cooperation. With its regional perspective that considers the southern university's role in advancing defense research, commerce, and technology, such investigation also highlights another basis on which to recognize World War II and the immediate postwar era as transformative in the history of the U.S. South.
机译:本文以四所德克萨斯大学(德克萨斯大学,德克萨斯农工大学,贝勒大学和赖斯学院)为案例研究,考虑了第二次世界大战期间和战后几年联邦政府与美国高等教育之间关系的重要性。 。第二次世界大战和冷战中紧急状态和道德目标的背景在美国的高等学府中得到了体现,它们将其资源用于协助国家议程。相反,联邦政府以前所未有的规模向大学提供了支持。这种伙伴关系特别适用于南方的大学,这些大学在历史上一直落后于其他非南方大学的研究能力,对外部影响更为警惕,并倾向于强调区域主义-如果不以牺牲- -民族主义。尽管进行了此项研究,但南方大学在为一个或多个选区服务时所扮演的角色,使得与联邦政府的合作减少了大学用途的转变。这项研究更深入地探讨了战时对大学研究的资助,课程改革,校园实习生计划,战后退伍军人人数,作为所谓美国价值观的培训师的南方大学以及主张这些价值观的动力。特别值得注意的是,以国防为导向的研究议程的兴起并确保了收入的维持。大学与联邦政府之间的合作伙伴关系为开展大学业务提供了一种新的方式,这种方式在第二次世界大战后的短短几年内变得十分规范,以至于似乎不可逆转。这篇论文表明了这种伙伴关系在少数几所知名机构之外的大学中的重要性,这些机构通常被称为战争时期联邦合作的标志或指示。这项研究以其区域视角考虑了南方大学在推进国防研究,商业和技术发展方面的作用,因此也突出了另一个基础,可以将第二次世界大战和战后时期视为美国南部历史上变革性的基础。

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  • 作者

    Penney, Matthew Tyler.;

  • 作者单位

    Rice University.;

  • 授予单位 Rice University.;
  • 学科 History United States.;Education Higher.;History of Science.;Education History of.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2007
  • 页码 254 p.
  • 总页数 254
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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