From Ballou to Bacow: Tufts at 150. EXP 36-S, Spring 2002

Required resources:
Russell E. Miller, Light on the Hill, available in the Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu) or in Tisch.
Historical photographs from the Tufts University Archives, available in Perseus or from the Archives (http://nils.lib.tufts.edu/archives).
Tufts History collection in Perseus, also available on the Archives server.

Goals for the semester:
As Tufts celebrates its 150th anniversary, it is fitting to look back at how the University came to be. We will review 150 years of Tufts history, from Hosea Ballou, Charles Tufts, and the other Universalists who founded Tufts College on a bleak hill in far-away Medford, to the inauguration of Lawrence Bacow as the twelfth president of Tufts University. Along the way, we will discuss the characteristics of American colleges and universities generally, changes in the student body and the curriculum, and how universities reflect and respond to the wider society around them.

Students will use the Tufts History Collection in the Perseus Digital Library as a primary resource; all readings will be on line and will be hypertexts.

Workload and grading:
You will write a short essay (300-500 words) almost every week, responding to a topic from the week's discussion. You will have reading assignments for each class. There will be no exams.

Grades will be computed as follows:

General policies:

Written assignments are due in class the week after they are assigned. Late papers will not be accepted. If you will not be in class on the day when an assignment is due, email it to me, preferably in plain text format, to arrive by the end of class.
You should complete the reading assigned for each class before that day's class. You will probably want to bring your notes on the readings to class.

Attendance in class is required, as the class is built around discussion. On the other hand, if you must occasionally miss class for a legitimate reason, I will assume you can keep up with the work.

I am happy to read drafts of papers as you work on them, or to answer questions about assignments. You may not re-write and re-submit assigned papers; the final copy is due on the scheduled due date, and will be graded.

I call your attention to University policy against plagiarism and other forms of cheating.  Please refer to the Bulletin of Tufts University, p. 40-41, for details.

Please note that except in the most extraordinary circumstances, I will not give "incomplete" grades.  As you know, an Incomplete means that you did not complete the work of the course, and it is the policy of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Technology that incomplete work must be completed within six weeks of the beginning of the next semester.

No extra credit work is permitted, and grades in this course are not "curved."

This course would not have been possible without the enthusiastic co-operation and support of Tufts University's Digital Collections and Archives, especially Gregory Colati, University Archivist, and Anne Sauer, Assistant Archivist.

Topics and reading assignments by class:
Links are to the text in Perseus; compare the Archives copy (with different layout).

1. 16 January. Introduction; policies and procedures. Overview of Tufts history: key names and dates. Introduction to Perseus and hypertextual reading. Primary and secondary sources for Tufts history.
2. 23 January. Beginnings. The Universalist Church and its educational program. Colleges in America, 1800-1850. Read: Light ch. 1 and 2.
3. 30 January. Building. Architecture and curriculum, 1852-1900. Read: Light ch. 3, 4, 5.
4. 6 February. Women at Tufts; women in higher education. Read: Light ch. 6
5. 13 February. Medical and dental education; professional education and the university as training school. Read: Light ch. 7, 8.
6. 27 February. Governance and curriculum, 1900-1930. Read: Light ch. 9, 10.
7. 6 March. Student life. Read: Light ch. 11.
8. 13 March. The Cousens era. Read: Light ch. 12, 13
9. 27 March. The Fletcher school. Read: Light ch. 14
10. 3 April. Tufts and the Second World War. Read: Light ch. 15
11. 10 April. The first hundred years; Tufts becomes a university. Read: Light ch. 16 and Epilogue
12. 17 April. New programs: Special Studies, Experimental College, the veterinary school, expansion and unification of the health sciences.
13. 24 April. Student life since 1952. Changes in the student body and in the faculty. Tufts today.

Selected bibliography:
This bibliography is limited to books in English that are available in Perseus or in Tisch.

Course texts
Miller, Russell E. Light on the Hill Boston: Beacon Press, 1966. LD5393.M5, vol. 1
Sauer, Anne. Concise Encyclopedia of Tufts History

Other books
Aisenberg, Nadya. Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. LB2332.3.A38 1988
Angell, Robert C. The Campus: A Study of Contemporary Undergraduate Life in the American University. New York: Appleton, 1928. LB3605.A6
Axtell, James. The Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration and Defense of Higher Education. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. LA227.4.A98 1998
Bender, Thomas. The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. LB2328.4 U55 1991
Benjamin, Lois. Black Women in the Academy: Promises and Perils. Gainsville: University of Florida Press, 1997. LB2332.3.B53 1997
Bok, Derek C. Higher Learning. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986. LA227.3.B63 1986
Bowen, William G., and Harold T. Shapiro. Universities and their Leadership. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998. LB2341.U567 1998
Davis, Michael. Ethics and the University. London: Routledge, 1999. LB2324.D38 1999
Fraser, Ronald, et al., eds. 1968: A Student Generation in Revolt. New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. LA186.A16 1988
Giamatti, A. Bartlett. A Free and Ordered Space: The Real World of the University. New York: Norton, 1990. LA227.3.G53 1990
Kennedy, Donald. Academic Duty. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. LA227.4.K465 1997
Miller, Russell E. Light on the Hill, volume 2. Cambridge: Mass Market Books, 1986. LD5393.M5, vol. 2
Newman, John Henry. The Idea of a University. New Haven: Yale, 1966. LB2321.N54 1996 (original edition 1852)
Olson, Keith W. The GI Bill, the Veterans, and the Colleges. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974. UB357.O45
Pescosolido, Bernice A., and Ronald Aminzade. The Social Worlds of Higher Education: Handbook for Teaching in a New Century. Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press, 1999. LB2331.S573 1999
Rosovsky, Henry. The University: An Owner's Manual. New York: Norton, 1990. LB2341.R59 1990
Rudy, Willis. The Campus and a Nation in Crisis: From the American Revolution to Vietnam. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996. LA229.R85 1996
Toma, J. Douglas, and Adrianna J. Kezar. Reconceptualizing the Collegiate Ideal. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999. LB2328.2 R43 1999
Tufts: The Total University in Changing Times. Privately printed by Tufts University, 1973. LD5386.5.T8

On-line resources
Tufts home page and Tufts at a Glance, the university's self-presentation
Tufts Sesquicentennial official site
Illustrations from "Tufts Through Time," a talk by assistant archivist Anne Sauer, 6 March 2002
Resources for graduate students, with particular attention to preparation for an academic career
Tomorrow's Professor, articles on academic life
College and University Home Pages, global directory of college web pages, no longer maintained but still useful
Land Grant Acts, information about the Morril Land Grant Act of 1862, the Sea Grant Act of 1966, and other legislation related to public higher education
GI Bill History, information about the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 and its effects on higher education
Higher Education Resource Hub, with links to archival resources from many colleges and universities