Education for Citizenship or Disciplining for Civility? : The Contradictions of the Private in the Public Land-Grant University: the Example of The Ohio State University /

Education for Citizenship or Disciplining for Civility? : The Contradictions of the Private in the Public Land-Grant University: the Example of The Ohio State University /

Myths and misconceptions dominate our understanding of higher education and especially public higher education. They mislead all parties including students and citizens. This book is an original and urgently needed critical reinterpretation of the history of public higher education focusing on the c...

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Main Author: Graff, Harvey J. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 357.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

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American Studies.
Education.
North America.

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Call Number: BL245

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements Xi
  • Introduction
  • 1 Locating The Ohio State University: Time, Place, History, Understanding
  •  1 OSU as the Model Football U.
  •  2 From Football to Foundations: Missing History
  •  3 Universities for Sale: Names and Naming-Rights in Perspective
  •  4 Land-Grant Foundations
  • 2 Origin Myths: the Uses and Abuses of History. The OSU Ways
  •  1 On Origin Myths and Their Uses
  •  2 The Ohio State University as Exceptional Example of Public Universities
  •  3 Geography and Politics Matter
  •  4 Without Place or Time
  •  5 Physical and Other Foundations
  •  6 What Is a College? Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College's Early Years
  •  7 From OAMC to The Ohio State University in Five Years
  •  8 "Science" Late 19th Century Style
  •  9 "Public Higher Education" at Ohio State University: Religion, Presidential Powers, Liberal Arts, Presidential Succession
  •  1 The Thompson Era
  •  11 Racism and Sexism in the Public University
  •  12 From the Mid-192s to the 199s
  •  13 Facing the Future, Again
  • 3 OSU as Slogan U.: a Model University or a Motto University?
  •  1 Education for Citizenship or "Disciplina in Civitatem"-Disciplining for Civility?
  •  2 Leadership by Slogans
  •  3 Sesquicentennial as Slogans
  •  4 Presidents Johnson and Carter Confront the 22s
  • 4 Changes and Continuities: Public and Private Conflicts and Contradictions in a Public Land-Grant University
  •  1 Introduction: Continuities
  •  2 Commencement Ceremonies as a Lens
  •  3 Opening the Window Wider
  •  4 Conflicts and Contradictions
  •  5 Conflicts of Interest
  •  6 The Private in the Public and/or the Public in the Private: Endowments, Naming Rights, Sources and Uses of Funds
  •  7 The Rating and Ranking Games: Truth in Advertising?
  •  8 Uses and Abuses of the Publics, Plural
  • 5 Athletics, Greek Lives? Safety across Fields of Play. The Ohio State Way(s)
  •  1 Football U.
  •  2 "Student Athletes"
  •  3 University Presidents and the Challenges of University Athletics
  •  4 Athletics versus Academics
  •  5 Abuse, Neglect, Denial, and Negation of Student Rights: the Continuing Scandal of Dr. Richard Strauss
  •  6 Sexual Abuse
  •  7 Can Campus Safety Be More Than a Set of Slogans?
  •  8 Rape, Assaults, Robbery
  •  9 Private over Public
  •  1 The Disappearing Uni-versity: Reinforcement of Vocationalism
  • 6 Student Life vs. Student Lives
  •  1 Student Lives, Plural and Diverse
  •  2 OSU Confronts the Present and Nods toward Its Future
  •  3 Office of Student Life
  • 7 Disconnecting Gown and Town: Campus Partners for Urban Community Development, Ohio State University
  •  1 Introduction
  •  2 Between Gown and Town: University-Community Relationships
  •  3 Campus Partners for Community Urban Development
  •  4 On Time and Space
  •  5 Origins of Campus Partners for Urban Community Development
  •  6 The Campus in the City or the City in the Campus?
  •  7 Campus Partners in Rhetoric and Realities
  •  8 Campus Partners in Theory and Practice: Mixed Results and Scattered Sites
  •  9 Retreat
  •  1 Appendix: Individual Properties Purchased by Campus Partners
  • 8 The Ohio State University in 225
  •  Looking Backward and Looking Forward. Education for Citizenship or Disciplining for Civility in a "New World"?
  • Bibliography
  • Index.