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Abstract: 

A fairly recent interest of mine has been tracking the history and development of student judicial affairs since the founding of the first universities in the Middle Ages. Aside from being interesting in its own right, such a survey can be useful for a variety of reasons. One of the most important is the opportunity to put the field of student discipline (and student life as a whole) into an appropriate context—it is somewhat heartening to know that the “nonacademic” side of higher education didn’t spring fully formed from the minds of liberal freethinkers at the end of the 20th century. To that end, I follow on from the previous installment of my travels through the ages (“Lessons from History, Part Two,” 9(1) CS&SD 7 (Fall 2007)) by skipping ahead roughly 100 years and reviewing “a brief survey of the growth, functions, and work of the American Colleges,” as seen in Colleges in America by John Marshall Barker, Ph.D., published by the Cleveland Printing & Publishing Company in 1894.

Keywords: John Marshall Barker, Ph.D.; Colleges in America;

Affiliations:  1: CSSD Contributing Editor.