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Given the relative youth of the field, as it was only founded less than 130 years ago, it does not yet have standalone theories or philosophies as the scholarship in the field frequently borrows from its epistemological, methodological, and philosophical ideas from more established social science disciplinesand fields. The objective of this paper is to use an historical exploration of higher education in North America to articulate both higher education’s foundation, purpose and philosophy. This analysis will aid in categorizing the types of questions the public and government ask of higher education and how higher education as afield of scholarship can impact the future of the governance, pedagogy, the nature of research, and university’s societal role. The cumulative effect of this work is ultimately moving this field of study to the center stage of the discussions around higher education.  \nKeywords: Higher Education, philosophy of education, foundation of education  \nDevon Jensen is associate dean of the College of Graduate Studies at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida. Sydney Freeman, [Jr. is](Jr. is) an associate professor of higher education leadership and qualitative research in the Collegte of Education at the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. Their e-mail addresses are: [devon.jensen@ucf.edu & sfreemanjr@uidaho.edu](devon.jensen@ucf.edu & sfreemanjr@uidaho.edu)  \nIntroduction  \nBoth the challenges and positive outcomes of higher education regularly make headlines across the country. Headlines such as racial tensions on campuses, the right to carry concealed weapons on campus, student debt, state funding cuts to higher education, campus sexual harassment, and university presidents forced out of their jobs are common stories featured in the news. In our current climate, what happens on university campuses can be big news pointing to national stories around campus freedom of speech, conflicts between liberal and conservative voices on campus, and faculty or administrators getting fired for comments they make in the news or social media.  \nAt the same time, the benefits that Higher Education can bring to communities and the nation is also part of the national dialogue. For instance, recent reporting by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute brought attention to the fact that startup businesses from the University of California system generated some $20 billion in economic activity for the state. Many of the recent advancements around cancer diagnosis and treatment have come from university-level research. There are also exciting advances around the microscopic world of nanotechnology and the large-scale engineering of internet infrastructures happening on university campuses across the country.  \nBoth the challengesand positive outcomes of higher education support the need for a continued exploration of the empirical and qualitative realities that can express how universities function as enterprises of knowledge, artifact, technical, social/cultural, and leadership production. This work is best framed through faculty and graduate students who focus some or even all oftheir teaching, learning, and research to higher education as a field of study. This research pathis also linked to ensuring infrastructures exist to disseminate and organize the knowledge that is generated. The current reality is that much of this work is being done by both graduate students and faculty who specialize in higher education as a field of study.  \nWith the increasing scrutiny directed at universities around such matters as the value of the endeavor, accountability of public resources, and the liberalization o","cbCaiiAGYxjbBn5S","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiAGYxjbBn5S","pdf",366218,25,"English","# Introduction\n## Building the Plot","[{\"question\":\"Why does the paper describe higher education as a relatively young field of study?\",\"answer\":\"It notes the field was founded less than 130 years ago, so it does not yet have fully standalone theories or philosophies compared with more established social-science disciplines.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the paper’s main objective?\",\"answer\":\"To use an historical exploration of higher education in North America to articulate higher education’s foundation, purpose, and philosophy as a field of study.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper say this research can affect the future of higher education?\",\"answer\":\"It explains that higher education as a field of scholarship can influence future governance, pedagogy, research, and the university’s societal role, moving the discussion toward the center of public debate.\"}]","Stepping to Center Stage - Higher Education as a Field of Study | PDF",1792095202,63]