From VPI to State University: President T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. and the Transformation of Virginia Tech, 1962-1974

From: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Geiger, Roger L | Copyright information

From VPI to State University: President T. Marshall Hahn, Jr. and the Transformation of Virginia Tech, 1962-1974 * Warren H. Strother and Peter Wallenstein * Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2004 * xx, 444 pp. * $35.00

Reviewed by Roger L. Geiger, Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Knowledge and Money: Universities and the Paradox of the Marketplace (2004).

Many land-grant universities, particularly in the South,...