Higher+Education



Higher education doesn't just include the academic college and university; it also contains the trade, vocation, and career institutes. The American higher education system is like Germany's. We share the same amount of years that are needed to obtain a certain degree. There were nine chartered degree-granting colleges throughout the colonies by the Revolutionary War. They were Harvard, William and Mary, Collegiate School (Yale), Academy of Philadelphia (University of Philadelphia), College of New Jersey (Princeton), King's College (Columbia), College of Rhode Island (Brown), Queen's College (Rutgers), and Dartmouth. These colleges were based off of the model of Oxford and Cambridge and were religious affiliated. Thomas Jefferson's vision was to separate colleges from religious affiliation to reinforce citizens of their rights and responsibilities. The Vermont senator, Justin Morrill, created the Morrill Land Act of 1862 to establish America. Most institutions were built for the purpose of science and technology. Also, colleges became state funded with private support. World War I began to decline the establishment of universities, but Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles W. Eliot came up with a concept called the Jeffersonian meritocracy. That was the idea that admission depended on a person's talent and merit. Due to post-war and this new idea, college attendance doubled and the accumulation of degrees rose. []
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