The Emergent University, II The Faculty Emboldened Alma Mater/Spring 2014 Lecture 11 February 26, 2014
Andrew Carnegie ( ), steelmaker & philanthropist; founded Carnegie IT (1901) and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1905)
Original 12 Members of Association of American Universities (1900) InstitutionFounding YearInstitutionFounding Year Harvard1636Cornell1866 Yale1701U. California1868 Princeton1746Johns Hopkins1876 Columbia1754Clark University1887 U. Penn1755Catholic University1887 U. Michigan1817Stanford University1891 U. Wisconsin1848U. Chicago1892
PhDs Awarded by Six Leading American Universities, InstitutionYear Ist PhDTo 1900Women Yale Cornell Harvard Columbia Johns Hopkins Chicago Six Top PhD Univs.To [6%] All 26 InstitutionsTo app.228 [11%]
American Learned Societies & Professional Organizations, YearDisciplineFounding SiteEarly CU president 1876American Chemical SocietyCharles F. Chandler 1883Modern Language Association 1884American Historical AssociationWm. A Dunning 1885American Economic AssociationEdwin Seligman 1892American Psychological AssnNew York CityJames McKeen Cattell 1899American Physical AssociationColumbia UniversityI I Rabi (1950) 1901American Philosophical AssnNew York CityJohn Dewey 1902American Anthropological AssnFranz Boas 1915American Association of University Professors John Dewey
Original 12 Members of Association of American Universities (1900) InstitutionFounding YearInstitutionFounding Year Harvard1636Cornell1866 Yale1701U. California1868 Princeton1746Johns Hopkins1876 Columbia1754Clark University1887 left U. Penn1755Catholic University1887 left U. Michigan1817Stanford1890 U. Wisconsin1848U. Chicago1892
Henry Adams ( ), Harvard 1858, Harvard professor medieval history, ; author of The Education of Henry Adams (1918)
John W. Burgess ( ), Amherst 1867, Germany, , Amherst faculty ( ), Columbia ( ), founder of Columbia’s School of Political Science (1880)
William James ( ), Harvard professor of psychology and philosophy, ; author of “The PhD Octopus” (1906)
Woodrow Wilson, JHU PhD 1886; taught at Cornell, Bryn Mawr, Wesleyan, Princeton; president of Princeton, ; New Jersey governor and US president
Frederick Jackson Turner, Hopkins PhD (1890), history professor at U. Wisconsin ( ) and Harvard ( ), author of “The Significance of the Frontier in American History “ (1894)
Thorsten Veblen, Yale/Cornell PhD, taught at Cornell, U. Chicago, Stanford, Missouri, New School of Social Research, author of The Higher Learning in America; the Conduct of Universities by Businessmen (1918)
Edward A. Ross, Hopkins PhD (1891) sociologist/economist; taught at Indiana, Cornell, Stanford (fired in 1900 by Mrs. Stanford); later at Nebraska, Wisconsin
Nicholas Murray Butler, CC 1882, CU PhD 1884, CU professor, ; CU president
Edwin R. A. Seligman, CU PhD, CU economics professor, ; expert on tax policy
Franz Boas, German-born and –trained CU anthropologist ( ), mentor of next generation of American anthropologists
James McKeen Cattell, Columbia professor of psychology, ; author of University Control (1913)
Charles A. Beard, CU Phd 1904; CU professor of political science, ; author An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913)
John Dewey, Hopkins PhD (1884), philosophy professor at Michigan, Chicago ( ) and Columbia ( ) co-founder American Ass’n of University Professors (1915)