Uses of the University Fifth Edition

Name: Uses of the University Fifth Edition
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ISBN: 9780674005327

ISBN-10: 0674005325

ISBN-13: 9780674005327

Edition: 5th 2001

Authors: Clark Kerr

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America's university president extraordinaire adds a new chapter and preface to The Uses of the University, probably the most important book on the modern university ever written. This summa on higher education brings the research university into the new century. The multiversity that Clark Kerr so presciently discovered now finds itself in an age of apprehension with few certainties. Leaders of institutions of higher learning can be either hedgehogs or foxes in the new age. Kerr gives five general points of advice on what kinds of attitudes universities should adopt. He then gives a blueprint for action for foxes, suggesting that a few hedgehogs need to be around to protect university…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/2/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Preface, 2001: A New Century for Higher Education Preface, 1963



The Idea of a Multiversity



The Realities of the Federal Grant University



The Future of the City of Intellect



Reconsiderations after the Revolts of the 1960's



Attempted Reforms That Failed



Commentaries on the Golden Age of the Research University



A New Age? From Increasing Federal Riches to Increasing State Poverty



Hard Choices



The ""City of Intellect"" in a Century for the Foxes?


Notes


Index