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Cornell University occupies a unique niche in the landscape of American higher education. Founded as the land grant university for the State of New York, it has from its beginning also been a private university. Its founder, Ezra Cornell, was a New York State assemblyman at the time of the passage of the Morrill Land Grant Act. Not formally educated, he had secured, lost and earned again a fortune as an entrepreneur. By the mid 1860’s, he had amassed considerable wealth from exploitation of a device he invented for the purpose of stringing the telegraph wires for Samuel Morse.
The authors greatly benefited from the substantive suggestions of Cornell City and Regional Planning Professors John Forester, Kenneth Reardon, and Stuart Stein in the formative stage of the chapter.
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Rawlings, H.R., Firebaugh, F.M., Murphy, S.H., Peters, S. (2002). Historical Base, Evolution and Future Directions of Civic Engagement and Service Learning at Cornell University. In: Kenny, M.E., Simon, L.A.K., Kiley-Brabeck, K., Lerner, R.M. (eds) Learning to Serve. Outreach Scholarship, vol 7. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0885-4_7
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