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The Wisconsin Idea: Extending the Boundaries of a University
Author(s) -
Corry Joe,
Gooch James
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1992.tb01605.x
Subject(s) - land grant , outreach , state (computer science) , institution , political science , the arts , public administration , liberal arts education , agriculture , university system , library science , higher education , management , sociology , geography , archaeology , law , economics , algorithm , computer science
In 1862, through the Morrill (Land‐Grant) Act, the United States provided 30,000 acres of land within each congressional district so each state could use the proceeds to establish a state college of agriculture and mechanical arts. These so‐called ‘land‐grant universities’ have now expanded (academically and physically) to such a degree that many have ‘spawned’ large multicampus state university systems. This paper tells how a pioneer land‐grant institution, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, developed a world renowned outreach program and how the spirit and resources of that campus extension movement then spread to other campuses of the UW System.