Introduction / by Daniel Mark Fogel
Democracy, the West, and land-grant colleges / by Coy F. Cross
The 1890 institutions in African American and American life / by Carolyn Mahoney
The modern public university : its land-grant heritage, its land-grant horizon / by E. Gordon Gee
Commitments : enhancing the public purposes and outcomes of public higher education / by Mark G. Yudof and Caitlin G. Callaghan
Challenges to viability and sustainability : public funding, tuition, college costs, and affordability / by David Shulenburger
University-based R&D and economic development : the Morrill Act and the emergence of the American research university / by Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars
From a land-grant to a world-grant ideal : extending public higher education core values to a global frame / by John K. Hudzik and Lou Anna K. Simon
Statewide university systems : taking the land-grant concept to scale in the twenty-first century / by Nancy L. Zimpher and Jessica Fisher Neidl
Creating the future : the promise of public research universities for America / by James J. Duderstadt
Challenges to equilibrium : the place of the arts and humanities in public research universities / by Daniel Mark Fogel.
Precipice or crossroads? : where America's great public universities stand and where they are going midway through their second century. ISBN 9781438444925. Published by State University of New York Press, Albany in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.