Using Calamity to Drive College Policy: President William Beardshear, Iowa State College, and the Challenge of Enrollment Growth, 1891-1902

Autor/in	Biggs, Douglas
Titel	Using Calamity to Drive College Policy: President William Beardshear, Iowa State College, and the Challenge of Enrollment Growth, 1891-1902
Quelle	In: American Educational History Journal, 43 (2016) 1, S.59-74 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1535-0584
Schlagwörter	School Policy; College Presidents; Land Grant Universities; Agricultural Colleges; Sanitation; Food Service; Educational History; Student Behavior; Budgets; Retrenchment; Economic Climate; Agricultural Occupations; Higher Education; Economic Development; Enrollment Trends; College Housing; Commuting Students; Educational Change; Institutional Characteristics; Governing Boards; College Students; On Campus Students; Iowa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulpolitik; College president; Hochschulpräsident; Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät; Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule; Betriebshygiene; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Finanzhaushalt; Wirtschaftslage; Agriculture; Occupation; Landwirtschaft; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Studentenunterkunft; Pendler; Bildungsreform; Governing body; Governing bodies; Leitungsgremium; Collegestudent
Abstract	The six Land Grant colleges and universities across the upper Midwest (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota State, South Dakota State, and Iowa State) all faced unprecedented challenges in the 1890s. The economic depression brought on by the Panic of 1893 saw budget cutbacks and lean times, but the "McKinley Prosperity," combined with the beginnings of the Golden Age of American Agriculture put more money in the pockets of farmers and townspeople alike, who sought higher education for their sons and daughters. The economic recovery, in turn, helped to fuel a significant enrollment growth in all of these institutions at the turn of the century. These challenges of growth touched every corner of the institution from curriculum, to classroom and lab space, to concerns over student behavior, but two of the most difficult issues facing colleges in these years related to the housing and boarding of students. This article argues that Iowa Agricultural College (Iowa State College from 1898) worked diligently to meet the housing, sanitary, and food service challenges head-on as they arose. In the period from 1891-1896 the college successfully largely worked within its traditional paradigm as a residential campus to meet these challenges, but in the period from 1896-1902, enrollment outgrew the available housing and forced a change in paradigm from a residential campus to a non-residential one. In meeting these challenges, the college went through a series of internal struggles when the vision of the president met with opposition from the eleven member Board of Trustees who micro-managed affairs and fought to retain the college's residential character. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01