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The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance : Professionalization and the Modern American University /
The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, Larry G. Gerber shows how the professionalization of college teachers coincided with the rise of the modern university in...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
John Hopkins University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance is the first history of shared governance in American higher education. Drawing on archival materials and extensive published sources, Larry G. Gerber shows how the professionalization of college teachers coincided with the rise of the modern university in the late nineteenth century and was the principal justification for granting teachers power in making educational decisions. In the twentieth century, the efforts of these governing faculties were directly responsible for molding American higher education into the finest academic system in the world. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (264 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781421414645 |