History of Higher Education Annual: 1996: History of Higher Education Annual

Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at The Pennsylvania State University and editor of the Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series.

Articles, The Harvard Tutors: The Beginning of an Academic Profession, 1690-1825 John D. Burton, “A Salutary Rivalry”: The Growth of Higher Education for Women in Oxford, Ohio, 1855-1867 Margaret A. Nash, “Noah Porter Writ Large”: Reflections on the Modernization of American Education and Its Critics,1866-1916 Peter Dobkin Hall, Californians and Public Higher Education: Political Culture, Educational Opportunity and State Policymaking John Aubrey Douglass, Review Essays, College As It Was in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Roger L. Geiger with Julie Ann Bubolz, The Rise of the University and the Secularization of the Academy:The Role of Liberal Protestantism Kathleen A. Mahoney, Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education, About the Contributors

A collection of articles and review essays from the year 1996 that make up Volume 16 of the annual publication by The Pennsylvania State University.