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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... question of just how government control and support adversely affects institutions of higher education. This is a markedly minority but increasingly influential view in American higher education. The leaders of American higher education ...
... question of just how government control and support adversely affects institutions of higher education. This is a markedly minority but increasingly influential view in American higher education. The leaders of American higher education ...
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... questions on the public support of scientific research and the training of scientists, questions that rarely come up ... question is the issue of competition in international prestige. Falling behind other developed nations in a number ...
... questions on the public support of scientific research and the training of scientists, questions that rarely come up ... question is the issue of competition in international prestige. Falling behind other developed nations in a number ...
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... questions for the nineties. But this brief and lamentable summary of current events is more symptomatic of a larger ... question from a well-known protest song of the sixties, “where have all the educators gone”? In fact, most have ...
... questions for the nineties. But this brief and lamentable summary of current events is more symptomatic of a larger ... question from a well-known protest song of the sixties, “where have all the educators gone”? In fact, most have ...
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... questions that those uncritical of government intervention either avoid or do not recognize. That is what this book does. Roger Meiners reminds us in this volume that from colonial days the state, often theocratic, supported education ...
... questions that those uncritical of government intervention either avoid or do not recognize. That is what this book does. Roger Meiners reminds us in this volume that from colonial days the state, often theocratic, supported education ...
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... question to consider as the Orwellian decade has come to a close. In the areas of science and technology, there exist some of the greatest tensions between education and training because it is here, not in music or literature, that ...
... question to consider as the Orwellian decade has come to a close. In the areas of science and technology, there exist some of the greatest tensions between education and training because it is here, not in music or literature, that ...
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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