Matthew Brown

co-author of "The Modern Land-Grant University"

November 4, 2015

Matthew S. Brown is a senior student affairs practitioner with expertise in student development theory and management of auxiliary services. His professional work history includes positions at three different land-grant institutions. Brown currently serves as the director of housing and residential life at Oklahoma State University, where he also teaches in the Counseling and Student Development graduate program in the College of Education. He received his Bachelor of Science in education from Pittsburg State University, master's in counseling and student development from Oklahoma State and a Ph.D. in higher education administration from Indiana State University.

In an increasingly competitive higher education environment, America's public universities are seeking ways to differentiate themselves. This book suggests that a hopeful vision of what a university should be lies in a reexamination of the 'land-grant mission,' the common system of values originally set forth in the Morrill Land-Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890, which established a new system of practically oriented higher learning across the United States. While hard to define, these values are often expressed by the 100 or so institutions that currently define themselves as 'land-grants' under the three pillars of research, teaching and engagement/extension.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2015/matthew-brown

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