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Free from the yoke of oppression by the Church of England this group was quick to form colleges that would support and promulgate their religious viewpoint.
Who were the Protestants?
100
This federal legislation established incentives for states to support the building of new colleges or expansion of programs on existing campuses.
What is the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862?
100
These British universities served as early models that were adapted by the colonial colleges.
What are Oxford and Cambridge University?
100
A college student by the time he was 10 years old, this president was chosen by John D. Rockefellor to be the first president of the University of Chicago.
Who was William Rainey Harper?
200
This classical language was a focus of the college curriculum during the colonial era.
What is Latin?
200
This 1828 report offered a scathing critique regarding the misappropriation of the college curriculum that away from the larger principles of building character and promoting distinctive habits of thought.
What is the Yale report?
200
The earliest instructors in colonial colleges were not called faculty instead they were called by this name.
What are tutors?
200
Named for its primary benefactor this school became the first college established for the study of commerce.
What is the Wharton School of Business?
200
This Harvard president is credited with developing the first system of course electives at American colleges and universities.
Who was Charles Elliot?
300
Taking place at the end of college studies these events were part of the Oxford and Cambridge traditions that were not included in the colonial model.
What are exit or certification exams?
300
Not to be too crabby, modeled on the German system, this this institution was the first US college to be considered a university.
What is Johns Hopkins University?
300
Increased public interest in providing basic literacy skills to more young men led to the development in popularity of this form of college.
What is the normal school?
300
Located in the Midwest this institution is credited as being the first coeducational college.
What is Oberlin?
300
A modern University president called the second Morrill Act (1890), seminal in defining the inter-related role of the university and the daily life of society.
Who was Clark Kerr?
400
Not directly related to the college, this invention undoubtedly spurred latter interest in agriculture and mass production as a college subject.
What is the Cottin Gin (1973)?
400
Symbolic of a new form of American higher education, this organization was established in 1900.
What is the Association of American Universities?
400
Not a "horror" this was one of the first colleges established in the south.
What was Transylvania University?
400
One of the three authors of the Yale Report, a faculty document arguing for the integration of classical, moral and practical purposes of higher education, this author himself was a scholar in chemistry (which likely offered him great legitimacy).
Who was Benjamin Silliman?
500
Emerging in 1910, this organization was established to fight the exploitation of faculty and insure fair practices in the valuation of scholarship and expertise.
What is the American Association of University Professors?
500
Academy, institute and seminary were all early names for this particular type of college.
What are women's colleges?
500
The concept of an external board, that later became the common model of of the American governance at American colleges and universities originated in this country.
What is Scotland?
500
President of the neighboring institution serving men, this president supported the formation of a separate institution with its own resources next door. That college, which became one of the Ivy League for women now bears his name.
Who was Frederick Barnard?