Land-Grant Colleges of Agriculture: Renegotiating or Abandoning a Social Contract

George R. McDowell

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 1988, vol. 03, issue 2, 4

Abstract: The land-grant university system was established as an institutional mechanism to influence and control the agenda of scientists within a revolutionary system of higher education. It was explicitly anti -elitist-an experiment in democracy-as compared to the dominant British and European models of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The land-grants were to be better than Harvard and Yale under the values of democratic America- they now may be just as bad.

Keywords: Agricultural; and; Food; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.130322

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