30th Annual Bishop Lecture at Rutgers University Libraries: "Becoming a Modern Research University" by Roger L. Geiger

Rutgers University-New Brunswick's Special Collections and University Archives presents the 30th Annual Louis Faugères Bishop III Lecture "Becoming a Modern Research University: The Postwar Challenges of Rutgers and Penn State, 1945–1965," by Dr. Roger L. Geiger. In honor of the 250th anniversary of Rutgers University, the lecture will explore the history of twentieth-century higher education and illuminate the role of the modern research university through a comparison of how Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and its Big Ten colleague Penn State addressed the challenges of postwar higher education.

Geiger, a Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University, is a historian of American Higher Education and the American Research University. His latest book, The History of American Higher Education: Learning and Culture from the Founding to World War II, (Princeton University Press, 2015) was awarded the 2015 Outstanding Publication Award for Postsecondary Education by the American Educational Research Association.

The Annual Louis Faugères Bishop III Bishop Lectures are named in memory of the son of Louis Faugères Bishop, Jr., a prominent cardiologist and book lover with close family ties to Rutgers and New Brunswick--for example, Bishop House and Bishop Place on the College Avenue Campus--even though he himself was an alumnus of Yale University. In his honor, the annual Bishop Lecture brings noted scholars and subject experts to Rutgers to offer their insights on diverse topics related to book and manuscript collecting, printing history, and the use of rare archival materials for research.

Event Details:

Date: March 30, 2016
Time: 5:30 P.M. - 7:30 P.M., talk and reception to follow
Location: Scholarly Communication Center, 4th floor, Alexander Library, 169 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ

free and open to the public

Questions and RSVP: events@rulmail.rutgers.edu or 848-932-5939