Higher Education in the American West

Part I. Regional, Historical, and Comparative Views

1. Western College Expansion
Lester F. Goodchild, David M. Wrobel

2. The Evolution of Institutions in the Westward Expansion
Arthur M. Cohen

3. Forty-Five Years in the Academic Saddle
Patty Limerick

Part II. State Development Perspectives and Federal Influences, 1945–2013

4. Middle Border States
Jason E. Lane, Francis J. Kerins

5. History of Higher Education in the Southwest since World War II
William E. (“Bud”) Davis

6. Higher Education in the Pacific West
William E. (“Bud”) Davis, Lester F. Goodchild, David A. Tandberg

7. Higher Education in California
Patrick M. Callan

8. The Federal Government and Western Higher Education
David A. Longanecker

Part III. A Concluding Commentary

9. Understanding the First Regional History of American Higher Education
Lester F. Goodchild

Keywords: Education, History of Education, Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, History of the Americas, Social Sciences, general