Troubled times for American higher education : the 1990s and beyond / / Clark Kerr, in association with Marian L. Gade and Maureen Kawaoka

• Autore: Kerr Clark <1911-2003.>
• Pubblicazione: Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 1994; ©1994
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 189 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 378.73
• Soggetto topico: Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States; Education, Higher - Social aspects - United States; Education, Higher - Economic aspects - United States
• Altri autori: GadeMarian L. <1934-> KawaokaMaureen
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE: A NEW AGE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION -- PART I: APPROACHING THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- Introduction: Approach with Caution -- 1. Contours of the Future for American Higher Education: Aspects of Mature Development -- 2. Challenges to Be Faced: Advancing the Quality of the Future Performance of American Higher Education -- 3. New Focus on Leadership -- PART II: HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE ECONOMY: AN INCREASINGLY DOMINANT CONNECTION -- Introduction: From God to Mammon -- 4. How Well Has Higher Education in the United States Met the Test of Service to the Labor Market? -- 5. The Corporation and the University: The American Experience -- 6. The Decline of the American Economy I: Is Education Guilty or Not? -- 7. The Decline of the American Economy II: Who Then Is Guilty, and Are There Solutions? -- PART III: THE 1990s AND BEYOND: SOME SPECIAL PERPLEXITIES -- 8. Prospects for the 1990s -- 9. Restoring Quality to Undergraduate Education -- 10. Comment on the Special Problem of Teaching about Ethics -- 11. The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education -- 12. Solving the Selective Admissions Dilemma: A Two-Stage Model for Higher Education -- 13. The New Race to Be Harvard or Berkeley or Stanford -- EPILOGUE: ON FACING THE UNKNOWN -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
• Titolo autorizzato: Troubled times for American higher education
• ISBN: 1-4384-0883-8; 0-585-06413-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822923803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series, frontiers in education.