The Great American University

Author : Jonathan R. Cole
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781458774071

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Americans and people throughout the world have become increasingly dependent on America's great research universities. Yet few of us truly understand to what we owe this extraordinary excellence or what we must do to keep it. From the development of technologies like the laser, the global positioning system, the MRI, radar, and even Viagra, to predicting weather patterns, American research universities are one of our most vital sources of economic growth and social welfare. They have flourished because of a system that has invested public tax dollars in their work and, more importantly, granted substantial autonomy to funding agencies and the universities. This system is now under attack, the university's preeminence endangered by the USA PATRIOT Act and other conservative policies. This revelatory and alarming book will show how this vital institution is at risk of tragically losing its dominant status and why a threat to the university is a threat to the health and wealth of our nation.

Author : Charles T. Clotfelter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108421126

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Big-Time Sports in American Universities by Charles T. Clotfelter Pdf

This book expands on the argument that spectator sports, despite their problems, have become a central function of American universities.

Author : Jonathan R. Cole
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781458774187

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The Great American University (Volume 2 of 2): Its Rise to Preeminence Its Indispensable National Role Why It Must Be Protected by Jonathan R. Cole Pdf

Americans and people throughout the world have become increasingly dependent on America's great research universities. Yet few of us truly understand to what we owe this extraordinary excellence or what we must do to keep it. From the development of technologies like the laser, the global positioning system, the MRI, radar, and even Viagra, to predicting weather patterns, American research universities are one of our most vital sources of economic growth and social welfare. They have flourished because of a system that has invested public tax dollars in their work and, more importantly, granted substantial autonomy to funding agencies and the universities. This system is now under attack, the university's preeminence endangered by the USA PATRIOT Act and other conservative policies. This revelatory and alarming book will show how this vital institution is at risk of tragically losing its dominant status and why a threat to the university is a threat to the health and wealth of our nation. This edition is in two volumes. The first volume ISBN is 9781458774071.

Author : Michael M. Crow,William B. Dabars
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421417240

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Designing the New American University by Michael M. Crow,William B. Dabars Pdf

A radical blueprint for reinventing American higher education. America’s research universities consistently dominate global rankings but may be entrenched in a model that no longer accomplishes their purposes. With their multiple roles of discovery, teaching, and public service, these institutions represent the gold standard in American higher education, but their evolution since the nineteenth century has been only incremental. The need for a new and complementary model that offers broader accessibility to an academic platform underpinned by knowledge production is critical to our well-being and economic competitiveness. Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University and an outspoken advocate for reinventing the public research university, conceived the New American University model when he moved from Columbia University to Arizona State in 2002. Following a comprehensive reconceptualization spanning more than a decade, ASU has emerged as an international academic and research powerhouse that serves as the foundational prototype for the new model. Crow has led the transformation of ASU into an egalitarian institution committed to academic excellence, inclusiveness to a broad demographic, and maximum societal impact. In Designing the New American University, Crow and coauthor William B. Dabars—a historian whose research focus is the American research university—examine the emergence of this set of institutions and the imperative for the new model, the tenets of which may be adapted by colleges and universities, both public and private. Through institutional innovation, say Crow and Dabars, universities are apt to realize unique and differentiated identities, which maximize their potential to generate the ideas, products, and processes that impact quality of life, standard of living, and national economic competitiveness. Designing the New American University will ignite a national discussion about the future evolution of the American research university.

Author : Robert Zemsky,Gregory R. Wegner,William F. Massy
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0813536243

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Remaking the American University by Robert Zemsky,Gregory R. Wegner,William F. Massy Pdf

At one time, universities educated new generations and were a source of social change. Today colleges and universities are less places of public purpose, than agencies of personal advantage. Remaking the American University provides a penetrating analysis of the ways market forces have shaped and distorted the behaviors, purposes, and ultimately the missions of universities and colleges over the past half-century. The authors describe how a competitive preoccupation with rankings and markets published by the media spawned an admissions arms race that drains institutional resources and energies. Equally revealing are the depictions of the ways faculty distance themselves from their universities with the resulting increase in the number of administrators, which contributes substantially to institutional costs. Other chapters focus on the impact of intercollegiate athletics on educational mission, even among selective institutions; on the unforeseen result of higher education's "outsourcing" a substantial share of the scholarly publication function to for-profit interests; and on the potentially dire consequences of today's zealous investments in e-learning. A central question extends through this series of explorations: Can universities and colleges today still choose to be places of public purpose? In the answers they provide, both sobering and enlightening, the authors underscore a consistent and powerful lesson-academic institutions cannot ignore the workings of the markets. The challenge ahead is to learn how to better use those markets to achieve public purposes.

Author : Lawrence Buell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674726321

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The Dream of the Great American Novel by Lawrence Buell Pdf

The first book in many years to take in the full sweep of national fiction, The Dream of the Great American Novel explains why this supposedly antiquated idea continues to thrive. It shows that four G.A.N. "scripts" are keys to the dynamics of American literature and identity--and to the myth of a nation perpetually under construction.

Author : Jonathan R. Cole
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786746194

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The Great American University by Jonathan R. Cole Pdf

Although America’s universities have become the envy of the world for their creative energy and their production of transformative knowledge, few understand how and why they have become preeminent. This groundbreaking book traces the origins and the evolution of our great universities. It shows how they grew out of sleepy colleges at the turn of the twentieth century into powerful institutions that continue to generate new industries and advance our standard of living. Far from inevitable, this transformation was enabled by a highly competitive system that invested public tax dollars in university research and students while granting universities substantial autonomy. Today, America’s universities face considerable threats. Even greater than foreign competition are the threats from within the United States. Under the Bush administration, government increasingly imposed ideological constraints on the freedom of academic inquiry. Restrictive visa policies instituted after 9/11 continue to discourage talented foreign graduate students from training in the United States. The international financial crisis, which has depleted university endowments and state investments in higher education, threatens the vitality of some of our greatest institutions of higher learning. In order to sustain and enhance the American tradition of excellence, we must nurture this powerful—yet underappreciated—national resource.

Author : Harvey P. Weingarten
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 9781487509446

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Nothing Less Than Great by Harvey P. Weingarten Pdf

Nothing Less than Great addresses the current challenges faced by Canada's university system and offers solutions to help improve the academic experience of students.

Author : George M. Marsden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 9780195106503

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The Soul of the American University by George M. Marsden Pdf

Explores the decline in religious influence in American universities, discussing why this transformation has occurred.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1282460773

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The Great American University by Anonim Pdf

As the economic crisis forces a new focus on long-term investment in institutions, it is essential that we recognize the contributions of America's great research universities to our national welfare. Though Americans and people throughout the world have.

Author : Raveendra N. Batra
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Balance of trade
ISBN : UCSC:32106013074023

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The Great American Deception by Raveendra N. Batra Pdf

"[Dr. Batra] is one of the most gifted and serious economists around today. His views on several national and global socioeconomic issues and problems are in demand around the world.

Author : EDWIN E. SLOSSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033321257

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GREAT AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES by EDWIN E. SLOSSON Pdf

Author : Kyle A. Long
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004425767

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The Emergence of the American University Abroad by Kyle A. Long Pdf

The Emergence of the American University Abroad explores the development of the independent American university abroad model since the U.S. Civil War and situates it in the context of American higher education.

Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317496663

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Guiding the American University by Peter N. Stearns Pdf

American higher education is under unprecedented pressure, beginning with the public funding and student debt crises and extending to inadequate performance in student retention and growing global competition. Respected educator and scholar Peter N. Stearns breaks down the underlying problems, exploring the most contentious issues for university leaders and administrators today. Guiding the American University covers the major facets of university operation—administration, faculty, and students—and discusses what should be changed and what should be preserved. Covering major topics for debate and real problems facing American higher education today—including the tenure system, online learning, administrative bloat, and campus culture—this book is a critical resource for aspiring and current higher education administrators. Research-based and stemming from a range of case studies, this book’s insightful and fresh recommendations serve as an important contribution to the conversation on the future of American higher education.

Author : Edwin Emery Slosson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : UIUC:30112083505443

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Great American Universities by Edwin Emery Slosson Pdf