Land-Grant Universities for the Future: Higher Education for the Public Good By Stephen M. Gavazzi,E. Gordon Gee,C. Peter Magrath

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Land-grant colleges and universities have a storied past. This book looks at their future.Land-grant colleges and universities occupy a special place in the landscape of American higher education. Publicly funded agricultural and technical educational institutions were first founded in the mid-nineteenth century with the Morrill Act, which established land grants to support these schools. They include such prominent names as Cornell, Maryland, Michigan State, MIT, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers, Texas A&M, West Virginia University, Wisconsin, and the University of California—in other words, four dozen of the largest and best public universities in America. Add to this a number of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and tribal colleges—in all, almost 300 institutions. Their mission is a democratic and pragmatic one: to bring science, technology, agriculture, and the arts to the American people.In this book, Stephen M. Gavazzi and E. Gordon Gee discuss present challenges to and future opportunities for these institutions. Drawing on interviews with 27 college presidents and chancellors, Gavazzi and Gee explore the strengths and weaknesses of land-grant universities while examining the changing threats they face. Arguing that the land-grant university of the twenty-first century is responsible to a wide range of constituencies, the authors also pay specific attention to the ways these universities meet the needs of the communities they serve. Ultimately, the book suggests that leaders and supporters should become more fiercely land-grant in their orientation; that is, they should work to more vigorously uphold their community-focused missions through teaching, research, and service-oriented activities.Combining extensive research with Gee’s own decades of leadership experience, Land-Grant Universities for the Future argues that these schools are the engine of higher education in America—and perhaps democracy’s best hope. This book should be of great interest to faculty members and students, as well as those parents, legislators, policymakers, and other area stakeholders who have a vested interest in the well-being of America’s original public universities.

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I work a lot on issues related to regional economic development, especially technology-based economic development. The conversation frequently revolves around "innovation ecosystems" and the dynamics between institutions, organizations, and communities in these ecosystems. The focus, goes the conventional wisdom, must be on relationships, not transactions.In my view, this idea is central to the arguments made so powerfully by Gavazzi and Gee in this book. The only way that land-grant universities will be able to overcome the threats they face--and that indeed society at large faces--will be to focus on relationships with stakeholders and communities rather than transactions. Instead of delivering discovery and education, land-grant universities must co-create knowledge and solutions with their communities.While it's true that land-grant universities have a special mission that leads to an expectation of their leadership in community and societal engagement, the fact is that for American higher education to survive and thrive in the future, all colleges and universities--public and private--must focus more on relationships and less on transactions. All institutions of higher education are dealing at some level with the themes outlined by the authors--balancing acts around: funding and efficiencies, research and service, teaching and service, fundamental and applied scholarship, rankings and access, rural and urban needs, global and local impact, and educational and material values of a college degree.Gavazzi and Gee, then, have not only provided us a with the beginnings of a "Land-grant Fierce" manifesto for those institutions whose history begins with the Morrill Act. All institutions of higher education should heed the call to orient themselves toward relationships and service, toward bringing communities together, and toward the betterment of society.

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