Service as Mandate: How American Land-Grant Universities Shaped the Modern World, 1920-2015

by Melissa Walker

Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America's land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus's second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these universities have adapted to meet the challenges of the past sixty-five years and how, having done so, they have helped to create the modern world.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817318887
• ISBN13: 9780817318888
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 20 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary