HIGHER LEARNING IN AMERICA
HISTORY DEPARTMENT
BARNARD COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

SEMINAR CALENDAR -- FALL 1999

1. September 8, 1999 -- Academic History and Academic Innovation

Part I: The Age of the American College, 1636 - 1861

2. September 15 -- Collegiate Foundings I: Who Governed, Who Paid?

3. September 22 -- Collegiate Foundings, II: Who Learned, Who Taught? [Notes #3]

4. September 29 -- Columbia College in the Age of Jackson [Notes #4]

October 1^st -- 1^st Web Presentation Due
October 5th -- Evaluation of Ist Web Presentation Due

Part II:  Emergence of the American University, 1850s - 1920

5. October 6 -- The Johns Hopkins and the Protean Ph.D.

6. October 13 -- The PhD Octopus: Second Thoughts on the University [Notes #6]

7. October 20 -- The 20th-Century Invention of Columbia College [Notes #7]

October 22^nd -- 2^nd Web Presentation Due
October 25^th -- Evaluation of 2nd Web Presentation/Mid-Term Performance Posted

Part III: New Claimants on Old Institutions

8. October 27 -- The Logic of Women's Colleges

9. November 3 -- The Logic of Anti-Semitism at the Interwar Ivies [Notes #8]

10. November 10 -- Academe Mobilized -- Universities and American Wars [Notes#9]

November 12^th -- 3^rd Web Presentation Due
November  16th -- Evaluations of 3rd Web Presentation Posted

Part IV: The University in the American Century, 1945 - 1968

11. November 17 -- The Long Fuse: Columbia in the 1950s and 1960s

        November 24 -- No Seminar Meeting -- Thanksgiving Holiday

12. December 1 -- Columbia '68 -- A Near Thing

December 3rd -- 4^th Web Presentation/First Option Due
December 7th -- Evalauation of 4th Web Presentation/FO  Posted

Part V: The Higher Learning in Our Times, 1970-2000

13. December 8 -- Publish or Perish, Teaching vs. Scholarship and All That

14. December 15 -- Affirmative Action and Its Discontents

December 18th -- 4th Web Presentation/2nd Option Due
December 20th -- Final Grades Submitted to Registrars