The instrumental university: education in service of the national agenda after World War II

Introduction : the instrumental university and American modernity

The progressive roots of the instrumental university : public administration, city planning, and industrial relations

Clark Kerr : leading proponent of the instrumental university

The urban university as community service institution : Pennsylvania in the era of Gaylord P. Harnwell

Instruments of technical cooperation? : American universities' institution building abroad

A use of the University of Michigan : Samuel P. Hayes, Jr. and economic development

Founding the University of California at Irvine : high modern social science and technocratic public policy

Epilogue : critics of the instrumental university.