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Higher Criticism and Higher Education at the University of Chicago: William Rainey Harper's Vision of Religion in the Research University
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Lee, Michael – History of Education Quarterly, 2008
In the 1890s, the Board of Trustees of the not-yet-built University of Chicago had just elected Rainey Harper to be its first president, and later, he would formally accept the position. Harper left a secure position at Yale University to accept the presidency of a university that was nothing more than an idea, a board of trustees, and the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Universities, Christianity, Trustees
Southern Education in Transition: William Waugh Smith, the Carnegie Foundation, and the Methodist Church.
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Hohner, Robert A. – History of Education Quarterly, 1987
Discusses the conflict in the early part of the 20th century between church-related colleges in the South and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Focuses on the Methodist affiliated Randolph-Macon Woman's College as an example of this conflict. (RKM)
Descriptors: Christianity, Church Related Colleges, Educational History, Higher Education