04748nam 2200697 a 450 991082443640332120230126204052.01-283-13602-397866131360220-231-52183-9(CKB)2550000000036402(EBL)895138(OCoLC)818854305(SSID)ssj0000538341(PQKBManifestationID)12270043(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538341(PQKBWorkID)10559112(PQKB)11081501(MiAaPQ)EBC895138(Au-PeEL)EBL895138(CaPaEBR)ebr10472031(CaONFJC)MIL313602(EXLCZ)99255000000003640220100607d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrKnowledge matters[electronic resource] the public mission of the research university /edited by Diana Rhoten and Craig CalhounNew York Columbia University Press New Yorkc20111 online resource (559 p.)Columbia/SSRC bookDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-15114-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.The public mission of the research university / Craig Calhoun -- Great expectations, past promises, and golden ages: rethinking the "crisis" of public research universities / Gustavo E. Fischman, Sarah E. Igo, Diana Rhoten -- "El central volumen de la fuerza": global hegemony in higher education and research / Simon Marginson, Imanol Ordorika -- The state, the university, and society in Soviet and Russian higher education: the search for a new public mission / Mark S. Johnson, Andrey V. Kortunov -- Public research universities in Latin America and their relation to economic development / Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Pablo Ruiz-Nápoles -- When neoliberalism colonizes higher education in Asia: bringing the "public" back to the contemporary university / Ka Ho Mok -- Challenges for higher education in Africa, Ubuntu, and democratic justice / Yusef Waghid -- The idea of the public university and the national project in Africa: toward a full circle, from the 1960s to the present / N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo -- Rethinking what is made public in the university's public mission / John Willinsky -- Public research universities: from land grant to federal grant to patent grant institutions / Diana Rhoten, Walter Powell -- German universities in the new knowledge ecology: current changes in research conditions and university-industry relations / Stefan Lange, Georg Krücken -- The micropolitics of knowledge in England and Europe: the Cambridge University IPRs controversy and its macropolitical lessons / Voldemar Tomusk -- Playing the quality game: whose quality and whose higher education? / John Brennan, Mala Singh -- The academic workplace: what we already know, what we still do not know, and what we would like to know / Christine Musselin -- Cultural formations of the public university: globalization, diversity, and the state at the University of Michigan / Michael D. Kennedy.Everyone from parents to policymakers has an interest in the mission of higher education, yet in many cases, the shifting relationship between public and private goods and public and private purposes has complicated that mission. Recent changes in organization, funding, and assessment have also altered the public purpose of universities. In this collection, scholars from around the world confront the realities of higher education and the future of its public and private agenda. Their perspective illuminates the trajectory of education in the twenty-first century and the continuing importance oColumbia/SSRC book.Education, HigherResearchPublic universities and collegesResearchEducation, HigherAims and objectivesEducation, HigherSocial aspectsKnowledge, Sociology ofEducation and globalizationEducation, HigherResearch.Public universities and collegesResearch.Education, HigherAims and objectives.Education, HigherSocial aspects.Knowledge, Sociology of.Education and globalization.378/.013Rhoten Diana1611443Calhoun Craig J.1952-1596199MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824436403321Knowledge matters3939717UNINA