Higher Ed History

I love history in general, but particularly the history of universities. I even college old yearbooks from colleges where I have worked – but I am trying to stop – they weigh way too much! As I read interesting facts about universities, I will note them and want to remember them. I thought this might be a nice holding place for this content.

  1. The “Forced” Flexibility of Higher Education’s Target Populations
  2. HEd History – Residential Colleges in the U.S. Are Less than 100 years Old!
  3. HEd History – Football Violence has been an Issue for >100 Years
  4. HEd History – Paying College Athletes to Play at the Root of College Football
  5. HEd History – College in the 1700s – Harvard & Yale
  6. HEd History – Universities Named after Slaveowners
  7. HEd History – Colleges that Moved Their Entire Campus
  8. HEd History – World War I
  9. HEd History – Scotland, Not England = Real Model for U.S. Higher Ed
  10. HEd History – Old Main – Who Knew There Were So Many?
  11. HEd History – First Ever Ranking of Universities?
  12. HEd History – “Identify & Ratify” the Elite through “In Loco Parentis”
  13. HEd History – Colonial Colleges’ Efforts to “Educate” Native Americans
  14. HEd History – Academic & Industrial Efficiency
  15. HEd History – Using a Credit Hour as a Gauge to Efficiency
  16. HEd History – Ranking Students by their Socio-Econonic Status
  17. HEd History – Why There Are So Many Memorial Stadiums
  18. HEd History – The Harvard of the South – Transylvania University
  19. HEd History – Universities Borrowed Real Babies to Learn Childrearing
  20. HEd History – Taking Leadership of Student Social Institutions
  21. HEd History – What We Didn’t Know about the Creation of Land-Grant Colleges
  22. HEd History – Early Women’s Colleges
  23. HEd History – College Presidents Have Always been Fundraisers
  24. HEd History – Graduating College not nearly as Important in Colonial Days
  25. HEd History – Medical Schools Were Not What We Thought
  26. Hed History – Baylor University for One Woman From 1858-1860
  27. HEd History – Rationale for Eating Clubs
  28. Changes in Majors at Yale over 120 Years
  29. HEd History – A Jewish Student in the 1950s
  30. HEd History – New Colleges (e.g. Princeton) Formed In Response to Liberal Colleges
  31. HEd History – Black Colleges and College Life in early 20th Century
  32. HEd History – Oberlin 1st to Coeducate & 1st Black Woman Graduate!
  33. HEd History – ACC Targets UVA for Expansion But UVA Leaders Resist
  34. HEd History – Fun Facts About 12 of U. of Virginia’s Current Buildings
  35. HEd History – The Early Days of the University of Virginia
  36. HEd History – Yale’s Namesake Considered Overrated Philanthropist
  37. HEd History – SMU 1958 Yearbook