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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... Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, has often pointed to this predominance of American institutions among the leading universities of the world. And it stands to reason that the remarkable flow of private funds ...
... Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, has often pointed to this predominance of American institutions among the leading universities of the world. And it stands to reason that the remarkable flow of private funds ...
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... faculty from research and teaching means an inevitable underinvestment in teaching. And the further chapters by Peter Aranson, Joseph Martino, and Cotton Lindsay raise questions on the public support of scientific research and the ...
... faculty from research and teaching means an inevitable underinvestment in teaching. And the further chapters by Peter Aranson, Joseph Martino, and Cotton Lindsay raise questions on the public support of scientific research and the ...
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... faculty members, and administrators. They will have to consider the various arguments presented in this book, arguments that suggest not “more” but “less” to be the answer. Nathan Glazer Professor of Education and Sociology, Harvard ...
... faculty members, and administrators. They will have to consider the various arguments presented in this book, arguments that suggest not “more” but “less” to be the answer. Nathan Glazer Professor of Education and Sociology, Harvard ...
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... faculty looked on. For the majority of students and their parents the reality of political correctness has been a nuisance or a source of embarrassment, but increasingly it is realized that to contend with demands for fealty to the ...
... faculty looked on. For the majority of students and their parents the reality of political correctness has been a nuisance or a source of embarrassment, but increasingly it is realized that to contend with demands for fealty to the ...
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... faculty destroyed the credibility of university faculty as the responsible agents for higher education? The answer is probably—no more so than the variety of other contra-academic denigrations institutions of higher education have ...
... faculty destroyed the credibility of university faculty as the responsible agents for higher education? The answer is probably—no more so than the variety of other contra-academic denigrations institutions of higher education have ...
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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