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Title: The gift that keeps on giving: land-grant universities and regional prosperity

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: Land-grant universities are distinctly American institutions of higher educationin two respects. First, the establishment of a land-grant university was an independentact by the US federal government that endowed specific counties across the country witha university. Second, their mission of inclusion, with an emphasis on the agricultural andmechanic arts, was designed to educate the industrial class for professional life. Despitethese institutions unique founding and mission, however, land-grant universities havereceived little specific attention in the broader literature on university impacts. Given thecomparatively little attention devoted to these institutions, the goal of this study is to usea descriptive and exploratory quasi-experimental analysis to evaluate the potential impactsof land-grant institutions on their local communities. The results of this analysis suggestthat land-grant universities do impact their local communities, but that these impacts didnot begin to appear until approximately sixty years after their initial founding.

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Authors: Mack, Elizabeth A.; Stolarick, Kevin

Periodical (Full): Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

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Volume: 32

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Education

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