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Research and relevant knowledge : American research universities since World War II /
With this book, Roger L. Geiger completes a two-volume study of American research universities in the twentieth century. The first volume, To Advance Knowledge, focused on those few institutions that first embodied academic research and their interaction with private supporters. This book describes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Origins of the Federal Research Economy. 1. The Organization of Research for War. 2. Universities and War Research. 3. Postwar Federal Science Policy. 4. The Postwar Federal Research Economy
- 2. Research Universities in the Postwar Era, 1945-1957. 1. From War to Peace to Cold War. 2. The Burdens of Finance. 3. Organized Research in Postwar Universities. 4. An Autonomous Research Mission and Its Discontents
- 3. The Development of Universities in the Postwar Era. 1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2. The University of California, Berkeley. 3. Yale University
- 4. Private Foundations and the Research Universities, 1945-1960. 1. Foundations and Academic Social Science. 2. Foundation Support for University Advancement
- 5. University Advancement from the Postwar Era to the 1960s. 1. Stanford University. 2. The University of California, Los Angeles. 3. The University of Pittsburgh
- 6. The Transformation of Federal Research Support in the Sputnik Era.
- 1. The 1950s Research Economy and the Rise of NSF. 2. Sputnik. 3. The Politics of Academic Science. 4. Federal Support and the Golden Age of Academic Science
- 7. The Golden Age on Campus: The Research Universities in the 1960s. 1. The Evolving University: Contemporary Perceptions. 2. Changing Patterns of Research and New Research Universities. 3. Academic Quality and Institutional Development. 4. Graduate Education in the 1960s
- 8. Dissolution of a Consensus. 1. The Student Rebellion. 2. The Financial Crisis of the Research Universities. 3. A Deeper Malaise
- 9. Surviving the Seventies. 1. The State of Universities in the Mid-1970s. 2. The University of Arizona. 3. Georgia Institute of Technology. 4. Private Industry and University Research
- 10. The New Era of the 1980s. 1. Turning Outward. 2. Research in the 1980s. 3. Centrifugal Forces. 4. Research Universities and American Society.