Download A Setting For Excellence: The Story of the Planning and by Frederick W. Mayer PDF

March 27, 2017 | College University Education

By Frederick W. Mayer

While there are occasions while the combo of outdated and new structures and the chaotic actions of hundreds of thousands of scholars may give a haphazard visual appeal to the college, campus making plans has actually develop into a hugely subtle kind of structure. this is often tested in a resounding model through this immensely informative and exciting historical past of the evolution of the campuses of the college of Michigan via Fred Mayer, who served for greater than 3 a long time because the campus planner for the collage in the course of a tremendous interval of its progress in the course of the overdue 20th century. through tracing the improvement of the Michigan campus from its early days to the current, in the context of the evolution of upper schooling in the US, Mayer offers a robust argument for the significance of rigorous and enlightened campus making plans as a serious section of the training surroundings of the college. His entire background of campus making plans, illustrated with images, maps, and diagrams from Michigan’s heritage, is a phenomenal contribution to the university’s historical past because it techniques its bicentennial in 2017. probably extra very important, Mayer’s ebook presents a beneficial treatise at the evolution of campus making plans as an architectural discipline.

Show description

Read or Download A Setting For Excellence: The Story of the Planning and Development of the Ann Arbor Campus of the University of Michigan PDF

Best college & university education books

Leadership for World-Class Universities: Challenges for Developing Countries

Management for World-Class Universities finds how "world-class" pondering and coverage will help collage leaders hire sleek options to the demanding situations dealing with greater schooling at the present time. Readers will reap the benefits of top perform suggestion provided by way of distinctive foreign members who've excelled by way of considering globally with out wasting sight in their respective nationwide and native environments.

Positive Academic Leadership: How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Start Making a Difference (Jossey-Bass Resources for Department Chairs)

"A booklet that each educational chief may still learn and positioned into perform. " —Kim Cameron, affiliate dean of government schooling, Ross college of commercial, collage of Michigan compliment for optimistic educational management " Buller has produced a ebook that each educational chief should still learn and positioned into perform.

Communities of Practice - Vol. 1: Volume 1

The purpose of this set of books is to mix the easiest of present educational examine into using groups of perform in schooling with "hands on" practitioner event on the way to offer lecturers and lecturers with a handy resource of steering and an incentive to paintings with and boost of their personal groups of perform.

The Land-Grant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education

This paintings offers a severe reexamination of the beginning and improvement of America's land-grant schools and universities, created through an important piece of laws in larger schooling. the tale is split into 5 elements that offer nearer examinations of consultant advancements. half I describes the relationship among agricultural examine and American schools.