Wednesday, June 22

7:00–9:00 p.m.    

Welcome Reception for Participants

Thursday, June 23

8:30–9:00 a.m.

Welcoming Remarks

9:00–10:30

Launching the Land-Grant Colleges
Chair and Comment, W. Bruce Leslie, SUNY Brockport

Institutionalizing Agricultural Research in the Early American Republic: An International Perspective
Adam Nelson, University of Wisconsin

Saving the Land Grant for the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania
Roger L. Williams and Peter Moran, Penn State

Negotiating the Land Grant, Texas Style
Susan Richardson, independent scholar

Land-Grant and Racial Politics in South Carolina
Christian Anderson, University of South Carolina

10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

Who Attended the Early Land-Grant Colleges, and Why
Chair and Comment, Alan Marcus, Mississippi State University

The “Sons of Toil,” Illinois Industrial University, 1868
Greg Behle, The Master's College

The Populist Vision for Land-Grant Universities, 1870–1900
Scott Gelber, Wheaton College

Student Careers and the Transformation of Land Grants in New England
Nathan Sorber, Penn State

12:15–1:30

Lunch  

1:30–2:45

From Land-Grant Colleges to Research Universities
Chair and Comment, Roger L. Geiger, Penn State

President Edmund James and the University of Illinois: Transforming the Land-Grant College into a Genuine University
Winton Solberg, University of Illinois

Robert Thurston, Modern Engineering Education and Its Diffusion through Land-Grant Universities
Greg Zieren, Austin Peay State University

3:00–4:15

Institutional Visions for 20th-Century Land-Grant Universities
Chair and Comment, Lester Goodchild

Ralph dorn Hetzel: Situational Leadership at New Hampshire and Pennsylvania State Colleges
Jane Robbins, Vanderbilt University

Social Science over Agriculture: Re-imagining the Land-Grant University in Clark Kerr's Vision for the University of California, Irvine
Ethan Schrum, University of Pennsylvania

Postwar Liberal Arts: Transforming the Curriculum
Jackie Esposito, Penn State

4:30–5:30

Agriculture Extension in the 1930s and the 21st Century
Chair and Comment, Bruce A. McPheron, Dean, College of Agriculture, Penn State

Agriculture Extension and the New Deal
Christopher Loss, Vanderbilt University, Agriculture Extension and the New Deal

Land-Grant Universities and Extension in the 21st Century: A Re-Evaluation
George R. McDowell, Virginia Tech

7:00

Banquet

President Peter McPherson, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities

Friday, June 24

9:00–10:30 a.m.

Engaged Scholarship and the Land-Grant Mission in the 21st Century
Chair and Comment, Theodore Alter, Penn State
Hiram Fitzgerald, Michigan State University
Sam Cordes, Purdue University

10:45 a.m.–noon

Interpreting the Land-Grant Movement, Mission, or Story
Chair and Comment, Donald Heller, Penn State

Storying and Re-Storying the Land-Grant System and Mission
Scott J. Peters, Cornell University

Educational Pathways of Doctoral Recipients, Land-Grant Universities in the 20th Century
David Baker, Shannon Symthe Fleishman, Rebekah Young, Penn State
                                  

12:15–1:45 p.m.

Luncheon Speaker:
President Graham Spanier, Penn State

1:45–2:45

Concluding Panel: Connecting the Legacy with the Promise