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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... institutions or business schools, half the institutions of higher education in the United States are private and one-fifth of our students attend private institutions. In addition, our most distinguished research universities and our ...
... institutions or business schools, half the institutions of higher education in the United States are private and one-fifth of our students attend private institutions. In addition, our most distinguished research universities and our ...
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... institutions should be as free of government control as possible, even though the writers take a variety of positions on the question of just how government control and support adversely affects institutions of higher education. This is ...
... institutions should be as free of government control as possible, even though the writers take a variety of positions on the question of just how government control and support adversely affects institutions of higher education. This is ...
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... institutions, meant that local rules that defended an institutional view of the proper relations between the sexes had to be abandoned. Even those educational leaders whose general political outlook was liberal and rights-oriented began ...
... institutions, meant that local rules that defended an institutional view of the proper relations between the sexes had to be abandoned. Even those educational leaders whose general political outlook was liberal and rights-oriented began ...
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The Political Economy of Higher Education John W. Sommer. demic institutions.” Again, American experience supports this. Public choice theory “reminds us that the political process that advocates rely upon to pursue external benefits ...
The Political Economy of Higher Education John W. Sommer. demic institutions.” Again, American experience supports this. Public choice theory “reminds us that the political process that advocates rely upon to pursue external benefits ...
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... institutions who have touched us along the way. When there are many contributing authors the list of those who should be acknowledged is so extraordinary as to make it impracticable, if not impossible. I shall assert the editor's ...
... institutions who have touched us along the way. When there are many contributing authors the list of those who should be acknowledged is so extraordinary as to make it impracticable, if not impossible. I shall assert the editor's ...
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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