The Academy in Crisis: The Political Economy of Higher EducationJohn W. Sommer Transaction Publishers - 329 "The Academy in Crisis is a provocative contribution to an important debate....The costs of goverment support for American universities are not negligible. They include stress on some of the core values of universities and of science-vaules like openness, collaboration, and collegiality-and pressure, too, on other central institutional responsibilities, such as the education of undergradutes." Robert M. Rosenzweig, former president, Association of American Universities |
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... colleges are in large part private. The only nations that, in some degree, approach our system of higher education are those that have fallen (in large measure and at key points in their development) under American influence: Japan ...
... colleges are in large part private. The only nations that, in some degree, approach our system of higher education are those that have fallen (in large measure and at key points in their development) under American influence: Japan ...
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... college, are as eager for as much government support as they can get—for student tuition, for research, for the ... colleges do not see how they can escape substantial dependence on public funds and the interventions and intrusions ...
... college, are as eager for as much government support as they can get—for student tuition, for research, for the ... colleges do not see how they can escape substantial dependence on public funds and the interventions and intrusions ...
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... college? For some adults it is the thought of prolonged tranquility, punctuated only by vacations that dot the ... colleges and universities, and the not inconsequential expenses associated with many state supported schools. Lately ...
... college? For some adults it is the thought of prolonged tranquility, punctuated only by vacations that dot the ... colleges and universities, and the not inconsequential expenses associated with many state supported schools. Lately ...
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... colleges is merely to increase enrollment without additional building of classrooms, labs, and dormitories and to increase tuition revenues without hiring new faculty; the time-honored “bait and switch” technique of advertising a famous ...
... colleges is merely to increase enrollment without additional building of classrooms, labs, and dormitories and to increase tuition revenues without hiring new faculty; the time-honored “bait and switch” technique of advertising a famous ...
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... colleges and universities have turned away from instruction of students in favor of a federally financed research mission and have, thereby, increasingly become creatures of the state rather than self-sustaining, independent bases of ...
... colleges and universities have turned away from instruction of students in favor of a federally financed research mission and have, thereby, increasingly become creatures of the state rather than self-sustaining, independent bases of ...
Spis treści
The Politicization of Higher Learning | 15 |
The Evolution of American Higher Education | 21 |
The Political Context of Higher | 45 |
A History and Critical Analysis | 69 |
Higher Education the Individual and the Humane Sciences | 95 |
The Political Economy of Higher Learning | 127 |
The Economics of Higher Education | 135 |
The Economics of Fundamental Research | 171 |
Property Rights in Academe | 197 |
Normative and Positive Theories of Science | 225 |
Science and Technology for Economic Ends | 257 |
Universities and the Training of Scientists | 287 |
About the Contributors | 305 |
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