11. The State University of New York (SUNY)
Tennessee Board of Regents
University of Tennessee System
University of Colorado System
University of Houston System
University of Kentucky
University of Nebraska
University of New Mexico
University System of Georgia
West Virginia University
23. Thorstein Veblen, Higher Learning in America, Chap 2
In the working theory of the modern civilized community, –
that is to say in the current common-sense apprehension of
what is right and good, as it works out in the long run, – the
university is a corporation of learning, disinterested and
dispassionate. To its keeping is entrusted the community’s
joint interest in esoteric knowledge. It is given over to the
single-minded pursuit of science and scholarship, without
afterthought and without a view to interests subsidiary or
extraneous to the higher learning. It is, indeed, the one great
institution of modern times that works to no ulterior end and
is controlled by no consideration of expediency beyond its
own work. Typically, normally, in point of popular theory, the
university is moved by no consideration other than ”the
increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” This is so
because this profitless quest of knowledge has come to be
the highest and ulterior aim of modern culture.