History of Higher Education Annual: 1996

Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at The Pennsylvania State University and editor of the Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series.

• Articles, The Harvard Tutors: The Beginning of an Academic Profession, 1690-1825 John D. Burton, “A Salutary Rivalry”: The Growth of Higher Education for Women in Oxford, Ohio, 1855-1867 Margaret A. Nash, “Noah Porter Writ Large”: Reflections on the Modernization of American Education and Its Critics,1866-1916 Peter Dobkin Hall, Californians and Public Higher Education: Political Culture, Educational Opportunity and State Policymaking John Aubrey Douglass, Review Essays, College As It Was in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Roger L. Geiger with Julie Ann Bubolz, The Rise of the University and the Secularization of the Academy:The Role of Liberal Protestantism Kathleen A. Mahoney, Recent Dissertations in the History of Higher Education, About the Contributors