The American University : National Treasure or Endangered Species? /

Over the past decade, America's research universities have been accused, with increasing frequency and passion, of a wide variety of sins. Universities do not devote enough attention to undergraduate education, the charge goes, or they pursue unnecessary research, or they award doctoral degrees...

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Otros Autores: Bowen, William G. (Contribuidor), Bronfenbrenner, Urie (Contribuidor), Ehrenberg, Ronald G. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Fox, Marye Anne (Contribuidor), Gray, Hanna H. (Contribuidor), Lane, Neal (Contribuidor), Rhodes, Frank H. T. (Contribuidor), Shapiro, Harold T. (Contribuidor), Stein, Peter C. (Contribuidor), Vest, Charles M. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Labor History.
EDUCATION / Higher.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • The American University: Dilemmas and Directions
  • CHAPTER 1. No Limits
  • CHAPTER 2. Research Universities: Overextended, Underfocused; Overstressed, Underfunded
  • CHAPTER 3. Cognition, Character, and Culture in Undergraduate Education: Rhetoric and Reality
  • CHAPTER 4. Graduate Students: Too Many and Too Narrow?
  • CHAPTER 5. Prospect for the Humanities
  • CHAPTER 6. Prospect for Science and Technology
  • CHAPTER 7. Prospect for the Social Sciences in the Land Grant University
  • The American University National Treasure or Endangered Species?
  • CONTRIBUTORS

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