Reviews
"[The editors] and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) are to be commended for . . . the substantive and cogent narrative and analysis presented. I am confident that scholars interested in regional history and public policy will eagerly embrace these works and that they will use them in their own teaching, writing, and research." - Amy Wells Dolan, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Mississippi, USA "By providing a series of chapters addressing the origins and contemporary conditions of colleges and universities in the West, as well as providing clear and very helpful background about the history of the West itself, we can begin to overcome what some historians of education call 'Massachusetts myopia'." - Philo Hutcheson, Professor of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies, University of Alabama, USA 'In the 20th century, embracing both excellence and expansive opportunity, the American West inspired and in many respects led the nation to unprecedented achievements in public higher education, a story well told in Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts. The 21st century, however, is demanding more: universal opportunity, widespread educational attainment, and higher quality, in a time of growing inequality and diversity. Public Policy Challenges Facing Higher Education in the American West, its companion volume, sets forth the challenges confronting educators and policy leaders in the West and invites their response.' Paul Lingenfelter, Past President, State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), "[The editors] and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) are to be commended for . . . the substantive and cogent narrative and analysis presented. I am confident that scholars interested in regional history and public policy will eagerly embrace these works and that they will use them in their own teaching, writing, and research." - Amy Wells Dolan, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Mississippi, USA "By providing a series of chapters addressing the origins and contemporary conditions of colleges and universities in the West, as well as providing clear and very helpful background about the history of the West itself, we can begin to overcome what some historians of education call 'Massachusetts myopia'." - Philo Hutcheson, Professor of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies, University of Alabama, USA "In the 20th century, embracing both excellence and expansive opportunity, the American West inspired and in many respects led the nation to unprecedented achievements in public higher education, a story well told in Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts. The 21st century, however, is demanding more: universal opportunity, widespread educational attainment, and higher quality, in a time of growing inequality and diversity. Public Policy Challenges Facing Higher Education in the American West, its companion volume, sets forth the challenges confronting educators and policy leaders in the West and invites their response." Paul Lingenfelter, Past President, State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), "[The editors] and the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) are to be commended for . . . the substantive and cogent narrative and analysis presented . . . Scholars interested in regional history and public policy will eagerly embrace these works." - Amy Wells Dolan, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Mississippi, USA "By providing a series of chapters addressing the origins and contemporary conditions of colleges and universities in the West, we can begin to overcome what some historians of education call 'Massachusetts myopia'." - Philo Hutcheson, Professor of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies, University of Alabama, USA, and past President of the History of Education Society "Embracing both excellence and expansive opportunity, the American West inspired . . . unprecedented achievements in public higher education, a story well told in Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts. Its companion volume, Public Policy Challenges Facing Higher Education in the American West, sets forth the challenges confronting educators and policy leaders in the West and invites their response." Paul Lingenfelter, Past President, State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO)
Table of Content
Editors' Preface Introduction; Lester F. Goodchild, Richard W. Jonsen, Patty Limerick, and David A. Longanecker PART I: REGIONAL HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE VIEWS 1. Western College Expansion: Churches and Evangelization, States and Boosterism, 1818-1945; Lester F. Goodchild and David M. Wrobel 2. The Evolution of Institutions in the Westward Expansion; Arthur M. Cohen 3. Forty-Five Years in the Academic Saddle: The American West, Higher Education, and the Invitation to Innovation; Patty Limerick PART II: STATE DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES AND FEDERAL INFLUENCES, 1945-2013 4. Middle Border Region: Higher Education in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming; Jason E. Lane and Francis J. Kerins, Sr. 5. History of Higher Education in the Southwest since World War II: Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah; William E. 'Bud' Davis 6. Higher Education in the Pacific West: Developments in Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, and Alaska; William E. 'Bud' Davis, Lester F. Goodchild, and David A. Tandberg 7. Higher Education in California: Rise and Fall; Patrick M. Callan 8. The Federal Government and Western Higher Education; David A. Longanecker PART III: A CONCLUDING COMMENTARY 9. Afterword - Understanding the First Regional History of American Higher Education: The Spirit of Innovation; Lester F. Goodchild
