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Autore: | Kerr Clark <1911-2003.> |
Titolo: | Troubled times for American higher education : the 1990s and beyond / / Clark Kerr, in association with Marian L. Gade and Maureen Kawaoka |
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 |
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