¶ … HIGHER EDUCATION IN U.S.
Historical Events
Events that influenced the development of higher education in U.S.
Since the beginning of the 21st century, U.S. higher education stands for an impressive enterprise. Also, as an established industry of knowledge, higher education represents approximately 3% of the U.S. GDP. Virtually every legislature and govern in the United States evoke universities and colleges as fundamental to cultural, economic and social development of the U.S.A. Since the 17th century, the American higher education grew to fruition in the subsequent centuries. Similarly, differences emerged with each new period of collegiate development, but history has remained one of advancing access.
Discussion
Research indicates that there are key events that influence the development and growth of higher education in the U.S.A. Colonialist established institutions of higher education mainly for various reasons. For instance, New England settlers involved various alumni of the Oxford, Cambridge and royally chartered British universities, and thus believed that education was crucial (Goldin & Katz, 2008). Additionally, Puritan emphasized an educated leadership and a learned clergy. In 1936, their outlook created Harvard College. Between the foundation of Harvard and the beginning of the American Revolution, American colonist created nine other colleges and seminaries though only one college in the South.
Religion offered a crucial impetus for the establishment of colonial colleges. Also, as the 1730-1770s First Great Awakening initiated growth in various Protestant churches, each church desired to establish its own seminary. Moreover, each colony tended to support a certain denomination and thus new colleges and universities achieved significance for regional development. Through colonial colleges and universities were frontier institutions that enhanced access to higher education, by modern standards of the colonial era remained exclusionary and elite (Zemsky, Shaman & Shapiro, 2001).
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