The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected - Couverture rigide

Cole, Jonathan R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1586484087 ISBN 13 : 9781586484088

Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2010

Synopsis

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.

 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan R. Cole is widely known throughout the United States for his fourteen years (1989-2003) as Columbia's provost and dean of faculties, holding the position as the university's chief academic officer for the second-longest tenure in its 254-year history. He is currently the John Mitchell Mason Professor at Columbia University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PublicAffairs
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1586484087
• ISBN 13: 9781586484088
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 640
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