End of academic freedom : the coming obliteration of the core purpose of the university / / by William M. Bowen, Michael Schwartz and Lisa Camp

• Autore: Bowen William M.
• Pubblicazione: Charlotte, North Carolina : , : Information Age Publishing, Inc., , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.73
• Soggetto topico: Education, Higher - Aims and objectives - United States; Education, Higher - United States - Philosophy
• Persona (resp. second.): SchwartzMichael <1937-2024, >; CampLisa
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Front Cover ""; ""End of Academic Freedom""; ""The Coming Obliteration of the Core Purpose of the University""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""A Brief History of the Purpose of American Higher Education""; ""America Grows along With its Higher Education Institutions""; ""The Late 19th and Early 20th Century Economy: Roots of Academic Freedom""; ""Moving into the 21st Century: Higher Education and the Public Reunite""; ""The Core Purpose of the University""; ""Job Creation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurialism as the Core Purposes of Universities"" ; ""Governance and Control of Universities""""Competent Authority in the Marketplace of Ideas""; ""The Higher Education of Individual Purpose""; ""Understanding Todayâ€?s Universities""; ""Specialization, Technology, and the Quantity of Knowledge""; ""Specialization, Ignorance, and their Explanation""; ""Unintended and Unanticipated Consequences""; ""Communication, Cooperation, and the Foundations of Higher Education""; ""The Ins and Outs of Knowledge Formation in University Communities""; ""Hierarchical Control from Without vs. Autonomous Control from Within"" ; ""Requisite Hierarchy for University Governance and Control""""The Vital Function of Ideational Variety in Knowledge Formation1""; ""Characterization of Knowledge""; ""Knowledge Acquisition and the Learning Process: The Core of University Productivity""; ""Requisite Variety of Ideas and Knowledge""; ""Why We Should Care about the Variety of Ideas""; ""Five Great Impediments to Academic Freedom""; ""The Great Impediments, Idea Failures, and Their Impacts on Society""; ""The Great Impediments and their Implications for Imagination and Creativity""; ""Great Impediments and the “-ismsâ€?"" ; ""Great impediments and Unsustainable Lifestyles""""Surviving the Threats and Emerging as the Storehouse of Ideas""; ""A Question of Values""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""About the Authors""; ""NOTES ""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""ABOUT THE AUTHORS ""; ""Back Cover ""
• Titolo autorizzato: End of academic freedom
• ISBN: 1-62396-660-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808564903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II