The Emergent University, IIThe Faculty Emboldened

Alma Mater/Spring 2014Lecture 11

February 26, 2014

Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), steelmaker & philanthropist; founded Carnegie IT (1901) and Carnegie Foundation for the

Advancement of Teaching (1905)

Original 12 Members of Association of American Universities (1900)

Institution Founding Year Institution Founding Year

Harvard 1636 Cornell 1866

Yale 1701 U. California 1868

Princeton 1746 Johns Hopkins 1876

Columbia 1754 Clark University 1887

U. Penn 1755 Catholic University 1887

U. Michigan 1817 Stanford University 1891

U. Wisconsin 1848 U. Chicago 1892

PhDs Awarded by Six Leading American Universities, 1861 - 1900

Institution Year Ist PhD To 1900 Women

Yale 1861 344 36

Cornell 1872 146 28

Harvard 1873 272 0

Columbia 1875 237 9

Johns Hopkins 1878 549 1Chicago 1892 179 29

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Six Top PhD Univs. To 1900 1727 103 [6%]

All 26 Institutions To 1900 2000 app. 228 [11%]

American Learned Societies &Professional Organizations, 1876 - 1915

Year Discipline Founding Site Early CU president

1876 American Chemical Society Charles F. Chandler

1883 Modern Language Association

1884 American Historical Association Wm. A Dunning

1885 American Economic Association Edwin Seligman

1892 American Psychological Assn New York City James McKeen Cattell

1899 American Physical Association Columbia University I I Rabi (1950)

1901 American Philosophical Assn New York City John Dewey

1902 American Anthropological Assn Franz Boas

1915 American Association of University Professors

John Dewey

Original 12 Members of Association of American Universities (1900)

Institution Founding Year Institution Founding Year

Harvard 1636 Cornell 1866

Yale 1701 U. California 1868

Princeton 1746 Johns Hopkins 1876

Columbia 1754 Clark University 1887 left

U. Penn 1755 Catholic University 1887 left

U. Michigan 1817 Stanford 1890

U. Wisconsin 1848 U. Chicago 1892

Henry Adams (1838-1918), Harvard 1858, Harvard professormedieval history, 1870-1876; author of The Education of Henry Adams (1918)

John W. Burgess (1844-1931) , Amherst 1867, Germany, 1867-70, Amherst faculty (1870-76),

Columbia (1876-1912), founder of Columbia’s School of Political Science (1880)

William James (1842-1910), Harvard professor of psychology and philosophy, 1873-1907;

author of “The PhD Octopus” (1906)

Woodrow Wilson, JHU PhD 1886; taught at Cornell, Bryn Mawr, Wesleyan, Princeton; president of Princeton, 1902-10;

New Jersey governor and US president

Frederick Jackson Turner, Hopkins PhD (1890),history professor at U. Wisconsin (1890-1910) and Harvard (1910-24),

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, 1886-1902; CU president 1902-1945

Edwin R. A. Seligman, CU PhD, CU economics professor, 1888-1931; expert on tax policy

Franz Boas, German-born and –trained CU anthropologist (1896-1936), mentor of next generation

of American anthropologists

James McKeen Cattell, Columbia professor of psychology, 1891-1917; author of University Control (1913)

Charles A. Beard, CU Phd 1904; CU professor of political science, 1904-1917;

author An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913)

John Dewey, Hopkins PhD (1884), philosophy professor at Michigan, Chicago (1894-1904) and Columbia (1904-1931)co-founder American Ass’n of University Professors (1915)