Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: The Instrumental University and American Modernity 1
4. 1. The Progressive Roots of the Instrumental University: Public Administration, City Planning, and Industrial Relations 19
5. 2. Clark Kerr: Leading Proponent of the Instrumental University 51
6. 3. The Urban University as Community Service Institution: Pennsylvania in the Era of Gaylord P. Harnwell 90
7. 4. “Instruments of Technical Cooperation”: American Universities’ Institution Building Abroad 126
8. 5. A Use of the University of Michigan: Samuel P. Hayes Jr. and Economic Development 164
9. 6. Founding the University of California at Irvine: High Modern Social Science and Technocratic Public Policy 183
10. Epilogue: Critics of the Instrumental University 215
11. Acknowledgments 229
12. Notes 233
13. Index 291