Empires of Ideas : : Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China / / William C. Kirby.
The modern university was born in Germany. In the twentieth century, the United States leapfrogged Germany to become the global leader in higher education. Will China challenge its position in the twenty-first? Today American institutions dominate nearly every major ranking of global universities. Y...
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Kirby, William C., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Empires of Ideas : Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China / William C. Kirby. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (448 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The “World-Class” University -- 1 The University in Germany: A Historical Introduction -- 2 The Modern Original: the University of Berlin -- 3 Truth, Justice, and Freedom in a Cold War World: Free University of Berlin -- 4 The Rise and Challenges of American Research Universities -- 5 Rising through Change and through Storm: Harvard University -- 6 Public Mission, Private Funding: The University of California, Berkeley -- 7 Outrageous Ambitions: Duke University -- 8 A Chinese Century? ¡e Revival and Rise of Chinese Universities -- 9 From Preparatory Academy to National Flagship: Tsinghua University -- 10 The Burden of History: Nanjing University -- 11 Asia’s Global University? ¡e University of Hong Kong -- Conclusion: Lessons and Prospects -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The modern university was born in Germany. In the twentieth century, the United States leapfrogged Germany to become the global leader in higher education. Will China challenge its position in the twenty-first? Today American institutions dominate nearly every major ranking of global universities. Yet in historical terms, America’s preeminence is relatively new, and there is no reason to assume that US schools will continue to lead the world a century from now. Indeed, America’s supremacy in higher education is under great stress, particularly at its public universities. At the same time Chinese universities are on the ascent. Thirty years ago, Chinese institutions were reopening after the catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution; today they are some of the most innovative educational centers in the world. Will China threaten American primacy? Empires of Ideas looks to the past two hundred years for answers, chronicling two revolutions in higher education: the birth of the research university and its integration with the liberal education model. William C. Kirby examines the successes of leading universities—The University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin in Germany; Harvard, Duke, and the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States—to determine how they rose to prominence and what threats they currently face. Kirby draws illuminating comparisons to the trajectories of three Chinese contenders: Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, and the University of Hong Kong, which aim to be world-class institutions that can compete with the best the United States and Europe have to offer. But Chinese institutions also face obstacles. Kirby analyzes the challenges that Chinese academic leaders must confront: reinvesting in undergraduate teaching, developing new models of funding, and navigating a political system that may undermine a true commitment to free inquiry and academic excellence. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Education, Higher China History. Education, Higher Germany History. Education, Higher United States German influences. Universities and colleges China History. Universities and colleges Germany History. Universities and colleges United States History. EDUCATION / Higher. bisacsh Berkeley. China. Communist Party. Duke. Harvard. Hong Kong. Humboldt. Tsinghua. United States. admissions. athletics. censorship. colleges. higher education. rankings. universities. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Education, Psychology, Comm 2022 English 9783110993950 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Education, Psychology, Communication 2022 9783110994186 ZDB-23-SEW Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110785791 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674275645?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674275645 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674275645/original |
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