| Description |
1 online resource |
|
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The People's School is a comprehensive history of Oregon State University, placing the institution's story in the context of state, regional, national, and international history. Rather than organizing the narrative around presidencies, historian William Robbins examines the broader context of events, such as wars and economic depressions, that affected life on the Corvallis campus. Agrarian revolts in the last quarter of the nineteenth century affected every Western state, including Oregon. The Spanish-American War, the First World War, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Second World War disrupted institutional life, influencing enrollment, curricular strategies, and the number of faculty and staff. Peacetime events, such as Oregon's tax policies, also circumscribed course offerings, hiring and firing, and the allocation of funds to departments, schools, and colleges. This contextual approach is not to suggest that university presidents are unimportant. Benjamin Arnold (1872-1892), appointed president of Corvallis College by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, served well beyond the date (1885) when the State of Oregon assumed control of the agricultural college. Robbins uses central administration records and grassroots sources--local and state newspapers, student publications (The Barometer, The Beaver), and multiple and wide-ranging materials published in the university's digitized ScholarsArchive@OSU, a source for the scholarly work of faculty, students, and materials related to the institution's mission and research activities. Other voices--extracurricular developments, local and state politics, campus reactions to national crises--provide intriguing and striking addendums to the university's rich history"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Strategies for an Institutional History -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. Coming of Age -- 3. In War and Peace -- 4. Student Life, 1868â#x80;#x93;1940 -- 5. The â#x80;#x9C;Realâ#x80;#x9D; Civil Warâ#x80;#x94;Curriculum -- 6. The Academy in the Great Depression -- 7. Wartime: 1938â#x80;#x93;1950 -- 8. Campus and Community in the Cold War -- 9. Civil Rights, Campus Disorder, and Cultural Change -- 10. Federal Policies Become Preeminent -- 11. Becoming a Modern University -- 12. Student Life, 1940â#x80;#x93;2010 -- 13. Into the Future |
|
Epilogue: A Twenty-First-Century UniversityAppendix 1: Presidents of Oregon State (1868â#x80;#x93;2017) -- Appendix 2: Administrative Structure of Oregon State, 2017 -- Notes |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Oregon State University -- History.
|
|
Oregon State University. |
|
History. |
|
EDUCATION -- History. |
|
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Pacific Northwest (OR, Wash.) |
|
EDUCATION -- Students & Student Life. |
|
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Robbins, William G., 1935- People's School. Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2017 (DLC) 2017017672 |
| ISBN |
0870718991 |
|
9780870718991 (electronic book) |
|
9780870718984 (paperback) |
|
9780870719257 |
|
0870719254 |
|
