Making the World Global : U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary /

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Isaac A. Komola examines how the relationships between universities, the American state, philanthropic organizations, and international financial institutions inform the academic understanding of the world as global in ways that frame higher education as a commodity, private good, and source of huma...

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Autor principal: Kamola, Isaac A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Universities and colleges > Finance.
Educational fund raising.
Education, Higher > Finance.
Education and globalization.
EDUCATION / Higher
Éducation et mondialisation.
Éducation > Collecte de fonds > États-Unis.
Universites > États-Unis > Finances.
Educational fund raising > United States.
Universities and colleges > United States > Finance.
Education, Higher > United States > Finance.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Creative imagination" is needed : W.W. Rostow and the rise of modernization as a national imaginary
  • "The world's largest ... development institution" : Robert McNamara and the national development imaginary
  • "Marketing can be magic" : Theodore Levitt and globalization as a market imaginary
  • "Realities of the global economy" : A.W. Clausen and the banker's global imaginary
  • "Stakeholders and co-investors ... have "reform" on their mind" : Kenneth Prewitt and the defunding of area studies
  • "An opportunity to transform the university and, frankly, the world" : John Sexton and the global networked university.

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