The final part shows that the land grant mission is alive and well in university colleges of agriculture and in fact is inherent to their identity including some of the best minds the field has to offer this volume follows in the fine tradition of past books in transactions perspectives on the history of higher education series. The final part shows that the land grant mission is alive and well in university colleges of agriculture and in fact is inherent to their identityincluding some of the best minds the field has to offer this volume follows in the fine tradition of past books in transactions perspectives on the history of higher education series. The land grant colleges and the reshaping of american higher education perspectives on the history of higher education 1st edition by roger l geiger editor nathan m sorber editor isbn 13 978 1412851473 isbn 10 1412851475. This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of americas land grant colleges and universities created by the most important piece of legislation in higher education the story is divided into five parts that provide closer examinations of representative developmentspart i describes the connection between agricultural research and american colleges. Land grant universities 1900 1940 introduction roger l geiger president edmund j james and the university of illinois 1904 1920 redeeming the promises of the morrill land grant act winton u solberg transforming the land grant the university of new hampshire and the pennsylvania state university under the leadership of ralph dorn hetzel jane robbins v universities and the