Nathan Sorber, Ph.D.

Nathan M. Sorber is the Director of the School of Education and an associate professor of education leadership and organizations in the College of Applied Human Sciences at West Virginia University. He is the author of several books on education including Change and Continuity in American Higher Education: Lessons from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Innovations (Routledge, 2020), Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt: The Origins of the Morrill Act and the Reform of Higher Education (Cornell University Press, 2018), American Higher Education in the Postwar Era (Routledge, 2017), and f Land-Grant Colleges and the Reshaping of American Higher Education (Transaction Press, 2013). Sorber has written extensively on land-grant colleges, the development of American higher education, and the relationship between education and the economy.