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The Existing Models: The Gold Standard</p>

<p>The distinctively American model of the research university came into being in the nineteenth century when the **German model of the elite scientific research institute *offering specialized graduate training was “grafted” onto *the traditional American undergraduate liberal arts college. *
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Following the lead of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, fifteen American institutions came to define the American research university: some of them private, such as Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, and Yale; others, state and land grant universities, such as the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Illinois, and the University of California; still others, new universities made possible by private bequests, such as Stanford, Caltech, MIT, and the University of Chicago.

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<p>[The</a> Existing Models: The Gold Standard](<a href=“http://www.asu.edu/inauguration/address/b1.htm]The”>http://www.asu.edu/inauguration/address/b1.htm)</p>