ap 601 exam 3

In the wake of the ascendency of the new University model, what became the new defining mission of what had been the old American college model?

liberal culture

At the turn of the 20th century, what new notion supplemented the colonial collegiate ideal of cultivating a learned gentleman?

manliness

By 1860, the Southeast had the highest enrollment rates in the country across its various state universities, denominational colleges, and military academies. Additionally, nearly all of these institutions of higher education in the South embraced evangelical religion, a commitment to states' rights, and what other social institution?

slavery

Institutions like Penn's Wharton School pioneered which of the following professional disciplines, which would contribute to a large-scale boon in enrollments in U.S. higher education in the early 20th century?

Business education

As the number of high school graduates doubled again and again in the 1920s and 1930, U.S. higher education was subsequently filled with what type of students?

First-Generation Students (or "First-time Students).

As President of Brown, this person sought to break the monopoly of the classical course by offering a broad slate of practical subjects that students might choose in various combinations.

Francis Wayland

Who fashioned the most academically ambitious of the colleges for women in Pennsylvania's Bryn Mawr College?

M. Cary Thomas

By 1930, this urban university with its multiple forms of career education grew into the largest private university in the country, thus contributing substantially to the mass higher education movement.

New York University

Which of the following organizations transformed college campuses into preinduction army camps during World War I?

Students' Army Training Corps (SATC)

On April 13, 1934, which of the following events, which consisted of an estimated 25,000 students across the country, marked the largest coordinated student action in the history of American higher education?

The National Student Strike Against War

Nearly all of the small, denominational colleges across the antebellum Midwest felt the need to offer additional forms of education for their diverse communities, including preparatory instruction, elective courses, and practical subjects. Geiger describes these types of colleges as which of the following?

multipurpose colleges

Which of the following institutional types introduced during Generation Six faced the most difficulty and remained relatively weak for decades?

agricultural colleges

Who was the education reformer that served as the president of Harvard for 40 years (1869-1909), restructuring it into a modern research university that incorporated faculty expertise, an elective system of courses, and eventually sabbatical laves for faculty research?

charles w. eliot

From 1861 to 1865, state universities in the South lost three-quarters of their students (nine-tenths at the University of Virginia) due to what?

civil war

When contrasted with the high-achieving colleges for women (e.g., Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley colleges), the Bureau of Education described these "Division B" institutions as offering preparatory, ornamental, and basic education?

female colleges

What type of student-driven organizations came into existence during Generation Six to become a dominant mainstay of the collegiate extracurriculum?

fraternities

Which of the following American institutions transformed in the 1880s to offer an advanced level of common schooling that prepared students for both college and life?

high schools

Which of the following was the revolutionary institution founded in 1876 with an emphasis on research, graduate education, and the standardization of the PhD?

john hopkins university

Who, after serving as the president of Wellesley College, would go on to the University of Chicago as the nation's first Dean of Women in 1892?

Alice Freeman Palmer

By 1936, what three Historically Black Colleges and Universities would ascend to the top of black higher education, employing 80 percent of black PhDs?

-Atlanta University (Georgia) -Fisk University (Nashville, TN) -Howard University (Washington D.C.)

Check all that apply: Which of the following philanthropic foundations invested substantial funds into higher education in the early 20th century to promote both a comprehensive and standardized system of higher education?

-Carnegie Foundation -General Education Board

Name all of the "Seven Sisters," or the seven prestigious women's colleges of the twentieth century that were established to rival the Ivy League in their education for women.

-vassar college -wellesley college -smith college -bryn mawr -mount holyoke -barnard college -radcliff college

Fill in the blank: In the 1920s and 1930s, elite colleges instituted selective admissions to filter an abundance of qualified applicants, including explicit quotas on the number of _______________ students.

Jewish

Who was the oil industry tycoon that ultimately invested $35 million into an upstart University of Chicago in 1890 that forged Baptist principles with elite research faculties, coeducation, and graduate study to become, in less than a decade, one of the nation's fines research universities?

John D. Rockefeller

As the epicenter for higher education in the world, German research universities idealized which of the following principles focused on the freedom to teach?

Lehrfreiheit

True or False: According to Geiger, the most fateful achievement of higher education in the interwar years was the ascent of American science to preeminence in the world.

True

Which of the following schools from Generation Six was the only institution in the Midwest to make academic quality its foremost value by embracing the university ideals of the German states and emphasizing the importance of research and scholarship?

University of Michigan

Who challenged Booker T. Washington on racial accommodation and industrial education, asserting that Blacks needed above all "the right to vote; civic equality; and education of youth according to ability?

W.E.B. Du Bois

Which of the following student organizations grew like wildfire on colleges campuses at the turn of the 20th century?

Young Men's Christian Association

Which of the following acts of congress gave each state 30,000 acres of federal land for each representative and senator in Congress to be used to institutionalize the study of practical fields, to meld those fields with liberal education, and to open higher education to a wider population of working-class students?

the Morrill Land Grand Act of 1862