Remaking the American University : : Market-Smart and Mission-Centered /

Remaking the American University : : Market-Smart and Mission-Centered / / Robert Zemsky, William F. Massy, Gregory R Wegner.

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At one time, universities educated new generations and were a source of social change. Today colleges and universities are less places of public purpose, than agencies of personal advantage. Remaking the American University provides a penetrating analysis of the ways market forces have shaped and di...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Zemsky, Robert,
Massy, William F.,
Wegner, Gregory R,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction The Diminishing of Public Purpose
  • 2. The Lattice and the Ratchet
  • 3. The Admissions Arms Race
  • 4. On Being Mission-Centered and Market-Smart
  • 5. To Publish and Perish
  • 6. A Value Proposition
  • 7. Thwarted Innovation
  • 8. Who Owns Teaching?
  • 9. Making Educational Quality Job One
  • 10. Not Good Enough
  • 11. Crafting a Public Agenda
  • 12. Dancing with Change
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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