LEADER 04039nam 22006614a 450 001 9910829190503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-13443-4 010 $a9786613807014 010 $a0-8135-4112-3 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813541129 035 $a(CKB)1000000000468117 035 $a(EBL)977457 035 $a(OCoLC)77208272 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000235755 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11198693 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000235755 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10163327 035 $a(PQKB)10375508 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8163 035 $a(DE-B1597)529498 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813541129 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL977457 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10150140 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL380701 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC977457 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000468117 100 $a20041028d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRemaking the American university $emarket-smart and mission-centered /$fRobert Zemsky, Gregory R. Wegner, William F. Massy 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) 311 0 $a0-8135-3624-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: the diminishing of public purpose -- The lattice and the ratchet -- The admissions arms race -- On being mission centered and market smart -- To publish and perish -- A value proposition -- Thwarted innovation -- Who owns teaching? -- Making educational quality job one -- Not good enough -- Crafting a public agenda -- Dancing with change. 330 $aAt 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 distorted the behaviors, purposes, and ultimately the missions of universities and colleges over the past half-century. The authors describe how a competitive preoccupation with rankings and markets published by the media spawned an admissions arms race that drains institutional resources and energies. Equally revealing are the depictions of the ways faculty distance themselves from their universities with the resulting increase in the number of administrators, which contributes substantially to institutional costs. Other chapters focus on the impact of intercollegiate athletics on educational mission, even among selective institutions; on the unforeseen result of higher education's "outsourcing" a substantial share of the scholarly publication function to for-profit interests; and on the potentially dire consequences of today's zealous investments in e-learning. A central question extends through this series of explorations: Can universities and colleges today still choose to be places of public purpose? In the answers they provide, both sobering and enlightening, the authors underscore a consistent and powerful lesson-academic institutions cannot ignore the workings of the markets. The challenge ahead is to learn how to better use those markets to achieve public purposes. 606 $aEducation, Higher$xAims and objectives$zUnited States 606 $aEducation, Higher$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States 606 $aEducational change$zUnited States 615 0$aEducation, Higher$xAims and objectives 615 0$aEducation, Higher$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aEducational change 676 $a378.73 700 $aZemsky$b Robert$f1940-$01478998 701 $aWegner$b Gregory R.$f1950-$01639854 701 $aMassy$b William F$0112774 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910829190503321 996 $aRemaking the American university$93983110 997 $aUNINA