The American University : : National Treasure or Endangered Species? /

The American University : : National Treasure or Endangered Species? / / ed. by Ronald G. Ehrenberg.

Over the past decade, America's research universities have been accused, with increasing frequency and passion, of a wide variety of sins. Universities do not devote enough attention to undergraduate education, the charge goes, or they pursue unnecessary research, or they award doctoral degrees...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Bowen, William G.,
Bronfenbrenner, Urie,
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.,
Fox, Marye Anne,
Gray, Hanna H.,
Lane, Neal,
Rhodes, Frank H. T.,
Shapiro, Harold T.,
Stein, Peter C.,
Vest, Charles M.,
HerausgeberIn:
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1997
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • The American University: Dilemmas and Directions
  • CHAPTER 1. No Limits
  • CHAPTER 2. Research Universities: Overextended, Underfocused; Overstressed, Underfunded
  • CHAPTER 3. Cognition, Character, and Culture in Undergraduate Education: Rhetoric and Reality
  • CHAPTER 4. Graduate Students: Too Many and Too Narrow?
  • CHAPTER 5. Prospect for the Humanities
  • CHAPTER 6. Prospect for Science and Technology
  • CHAPTER 7. Prospect for the Social Sciences in the Land Grant University
  • The American University National Treasure or Endangered Species?
  • CONTRIBUTORS

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