In the fall of 2001, with posters, tote bags, speakers, and balloons, the University of Pennsylvania launched its celebration of "125 Years of Women at Penn." Exhibits illustrating the experiences of women students appeared around campus and on the Web, while banners trumpeting the contributions of Penn women waved from lightposts. The…

In 1979, fourteen years after publishing his landmark work, "The Emergence of the American University," Laurence R. Veysey wrote a forward-looking article for the "American Quarterly" titled "The Autonomy of American History Reconsidered." In his article, Veysey suggested that the time had come to rewrite American…

In this paper, the author examines the content of Laurence Veysey's subsequent scholarship--centered upon his career-long fascination with the "price structure" of American society and institutions. Veysey's first scholarly volume after The Emergence of the American University was Law and Resistance: American Attitudes toward Authority (1970).…

Focusing on the medieval university during its formative years (late 1100s and early 1200s), the author addresses questions such as "How did the ambitions of students and masters influence the organization and curriculum of these new institutions?" Concludes that society was served by these universities despite the indication that the…

Discusses the use of higher education for social defense, moral improvement, and working-class acculturation in 19th-century France. (RM)

Describes the political and social atmosphere at Oxford from 1823-1914. Concludes that the suspicion of student politics in the 1820s was transformed into confidence, in part because of the social homogeneity at Oxford and the administration's assumption that the undergraduates possessed responsible political views. (Author/KC)

Traces the resistance toward establishing an economics curriculum at Cambridge University from 1776 to 1860. Complex reasons include inertia, low intellectual standards, fear of being considered partisan, and avoidance of change during good times. The eventual introduction of economics was achieved only when wholesale reforms were enacted within…

Examines the effect of the university's social environment on political leaders in Mexico from 1946 to 1970. The analysis focuses on the period from 1920 to 1940 when the majority of political leaders studied at the university. Considers the implications of developing a political elite and of the isolation of potential political leaders. (KC)