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• The Pursuit of Knowledge: A Discussion of Freedom and Compulsion in Education (1934), by Stephen Leacock (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)

• The Kirwan Years, 1998-2002 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Chris Perry (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Hovde Years: A Biography of Frederick L. Hovde (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University, c1980), by Robert W. Topping (PDF at Purdue)
• Richard Owen: Scotland 1810, Indiana 1890 (Archives of Purdue #2; c1946), by Victor L. Albjerg (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• The Hovde Years: A Biography of Frederick L. Hovde (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University, c1980), by Robert W. Topping (PDF at Purdue)

• Richard Owen: Scotland 1810, Indiana 1890 (Archives of Purdue #2; c1946), by Victor L. Albjerg (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Autobiography and Biography of Rev. Joseph Caldwell, D.D., L.L.D., First President of the University of North Carolina, by Joseph Caldwell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Autobiography and Biography of Rev. Joseph Caldwell, D.D., L.L.D., First President of the University of North Carolina, by Joseph Caldwell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Old Time College President (Columbia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law #317; 1930), by George P. Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools (2002), by National Research Council Center for Education (page images with commentary at NAP)

• A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide, 1876-2012 (Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2012), ed. by Nick Harvey, F. J. Fornasiero, Greg McCarthy, Clement Macintyre, and Carl Crossin (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)

• New Opportunities for U.S. Universities in Development Assistance: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Environment (OTA-BP-F-71; 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Collaboration, Technology, and Outsourcing Initiatives in Higher Education: A Literature Review, by Tessa Kaganoff (PDF at rand.org)

• Independence or Stagnation? The Imperatives of University Reform in the UK (c2003), by Dennis O'Keeffe and David Marsland, contrib. by Robert Whelan (PDF at Civitas)

• Research Universities and the Future of America: Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation's Prosperity and Security (c2012), by National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Higher Education and Workforce (multiple formats with commentary at NAP)
• Big Business and the American University (New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1966), by Bettina Aptheker (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)
• The Old Time College President (Columbia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law #317; 1930), by George P. Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Joe Doupe: Bedside Physiologist (Toronto and Oxford: Hannah Institute and Dundurn Press, 1989), by Terence Moore (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• Joe Doupe: Bedside Physiologist (Toronto and Oxford: Hannah Institute and Dundurn Press, 1989), by Terence Moore (PDF with commentary in Canada)

• The Strands of a Life: The Science of DNA and the Art of Education (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Robert Sinsheimer (HTML at UC Press)

• The Strands of a Life: The Science of DNA and the Art of Education (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Robert Sinsheimer (HTML at UC Press)

• Rethinking the Future of the University (1998), ed. by David Lyle Jeffrey and Dominic Manganiello (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• Handbook of British, Continental and Canadian Universities, With Special Mention of the Courses Open to Women (New York: Macmillan, 1899), ed. by Isabel Maddison (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Like Nobody's Business: An Insider's Guide to How US University Finances Really Work (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), by Andrew C. Comrie (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Castells in Africa: University and Development (Cape Town: African Minds, 2017), ed. by Johan Muller, Nico Cloete, and François Van Schalkwyk, contrib. by Manuel Castells (PDF at Project MUSE)

• Universities in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2019), by Jan Surman (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• The Western University on Trial (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), ed. by John W. Chapman (HTML at UC Press)

• Valences of Interdisciplinarity: Theory, Practice, Pedagogy (c2012), ed. by Raphael Foshay (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• A General Idea of the College of Mirania, With a Sketch of the Method of Teaching Science and Religion, in the Several Classes; and Some Account of its Rise, Establishment and Buildings (New York: J. Parker and W. Weyman, 1753), by William Smith
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images here at Penn

• A Blow at the Root: or, An Attempt to Prove, that No Time Ever Was, or Very Probably Ever Will Be, So Proper and Convenient as the Present, for Introducing a Further Reformation into our National Church, Universities, and Schools (London: Printed for A. Tozer, 1749), by Aaron Tozer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by Chelsea Miya, Oliver Rossier, and Geoffrey Rockwell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Faculty as Global Learners: Off-Campus Study at Liberal Arts Colleges (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2020), by Joan Gillespie, Lisa Jasinski, and Dana Lynn Gross (multiple formats with commentary at Lever Press)

• Big Business and the American University (New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1966), by Bettina Aptheker (frame-dependent HTML at cdlib.org)

• The Rise and Progress of Negro Colleges in Georgia, 1865-1949 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1951), by Willard Range (PDF at Georgia)

• Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Sidonie Smith (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• A Study of the Graduate Schools of America (Oxford, OH: Miami University, ca. 1925), by Raymond M. Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Enactments in Parliament, Specially Concerning the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the Colleges and Halls Therein and the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster (4 volumes, 1912), by Great Britain Parliament, ed. by Lionel Lancelot Shadwell
  • Volume I (37 Edward III - 13 Anne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1 George I - 11 George IV): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (11 George IV - 32 Victoria): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (32 Victoria - 2 George V, with Appendices): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Rise of Universities (1923), by Charles Homer Haskins (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries, by James J. Walsh (illustrated HTML at Notre Dame)

• Too Much College: or, Education Eating Up Life; With Kindred Essays in Education and Humour (c1939), by Stephen Leacock (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• College Days (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1923), by Stephen Leacock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Town Planning Towards City Development: A Report to the Durbar of Indore (2 volumes; Indore: Holkar state printing press, 1918), by Patrick Geddes
  • both parts: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Part I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Higher Education and the State: An Address Delivered Before the Fortnightly Club of Bloomington, Indiana (ca. 1898), by Joseph Swain (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Study in Holland: A Guide for Prospective Students (second edition; New York: Netherlands Information Bureau, 1961), by Hans Koning (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Minerva (German-language annual) (partial serial archives)
• The College Courant (full serial archives)
• Banta's Greek Exchange (partial serial archives)

• The Idea of a University, by John Henry Newman
  • Gutenberg multiple formats
  • HTML at newmanreader.org

• Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), by Lucy Montgomery, John Hartley, Cameron Neylon, Malcolm Gillies, Eve Horwitz Gray, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Chun-Kai Huang, Joan Leach, Jason Potts, Xiang Ren, Katherine Skinner, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, and Katie Wilson (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• A General Idea of the College of Mirania, With a Sketch of the Method of Teaching Science and Religion, in the Several Classes; and Some Account of its Rise, Establishment and Buildings (New York: J. Parker and W. Weyman, 1753), by William Smith
  • HTML at Evans TCP
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images here at Penn

• Reason, Faith, and Duty (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1877), by James Walker (page images at MOA)
• Twelve Sermons: Delivered at Antioch College, by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)

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