Composition: History & Theory: 1800 - 1865
Institutions
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In The American School From the Puritans to No Child Left Behind (2008), Joel Spring notes two major occurrences in higher education during this time period: The Dartmouth Case of 1817 and the Yale Report of 1828. The Dartmouth case solidified the division between public and private institutions. It was decided that “a college chartered by a state had the same rights against government interference as did an individual” (72). Therefore, it was made clear that “if a state wished to promote education to serve its own purposes, it would need to create its own institution and serve its own faculty” (72). Conversely, this ruling also meant that “privately created educational institutions could not be forced to serve the purposes of the government” (72). The Yale Report of 1828 stressed the importance of maintaining a family structure in the institutional setting. A family-structure environment, it was believed, would lead to balance the mental faculties. Residence halls were built to foster an intellectual community.
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3/13/09