Great American Universities
Author | : Edwin Emery Slosson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Universities and colleges |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edwin Emery Slosson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Universities and colleges |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jonathan R. Cole |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2010-06-22 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1458774074 |
Americans and people throughout the world have become increasingly dependent on America's great research universities. Yet few of us truly understand to what we owe this extraordinary excellence or what we must do to keep it. From the development of technologies like the laser, the global positioning system, the MRI, radar, and even Viagra, to predicting weather patterns, American research universities are one of our most vital sources of economic growth and social welfare. They have flourished because of a system that has invested public tax dollars in their work and, more importantly, granted substantial autonomy to funding agencies and the universities. This system is now under attack, the university's preeminence endangered by the USA PATRIOT Act and other conservative policies. This revelatory and alarming book will show how this vital institution is at risk of tragically losing its dominant status and why a threat to the university is a threat to the health and wealth of our nation.
Author | : Charles T. Clotfelter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108421121 |
This book expands on the argument that spectator sports, despite their problems, have become a central function of American universities.
Author | : Edwin E. Slosson |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2017-10-13 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780265271278 |
Excerpt from Great American Universities The unprecedented growth of American universities in recent years and their efforts to conform or to resist con formity with the demands of the times have effected such a transformation it is difficult to get a clear idea of their present condition and relative standing. A list of the larger universities arranged in the order of their size, wealth, scholarly productivity, or other objective criterion has surprises for almost every reader. He finds in the list and near the head of it names of institutions about which he knows little, and probably some of those whose names are most familiar to him are really very different from his conception of them, derived from their history or from early acquaintance. The alumnus who returns for the decennial reunion finds his Alma Mater greatly changed. Usually he is inclined to think that the change has not been altogether for the better in spite of the new buildings and crowds of students. He can, in fact, name the date when his Alma Mater began to decline and to lose the real old college spirit. It was ten years ago, when was gradu ated what is universally conceded by all its members to be the brightest class that ever came forth from its walls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Diane Ravitch |
Publisher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2010-03-02 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0465014917 |
Discusses how school choice, misapplied standards of accountability, the No Child Left Behind mandate, and the use of a corporate model have all led to a decline in public education and presents arguments for a return to strong neighborhood schools and quality teaching.
Author | : EDWIN E. SLOSSON |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781033321256 |
Author | : Edwin Emery Slosson |
Publisher | : Ayer Company Pub |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780405100215 |
Author | : David L. Kirp |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0199391092 |
In Improbable Scholars, David L. Kirp challenges the conventional wisdom about public schools and education reform in America through an in-depth look at Union City, New Jersey's high-performing urban school district. In this compelling study, Kirp reveals Union's city's revolutionary secret: running an exemplary school system doesn't demand heroics, just hard and steady work.
Author | : Stephen M. Gavazzi |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421426854 |
This book should be of great interest to faculty members and students, as well as those parents, legislators, policymakers, and other area stakeholders who have a vested interest in the well-being of America’s original public universities.
Author | : Michael M. Crow |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2015-03-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1421417243 |
A radical blueprint for reinventing American higher education. America’s research universities consistently dominate global rankings but may be entrenched in a model that no longer accomplishes their purposes. With their multiple roles of discovery, teaching, and public service, these institutions represent the gold standard in American higher education, but their evolution since the nineteenth century has been only incremental. The need for a new and complementary model that offers broader accessibility to an academic platform underpinned by knowledge production is critical to our well-being and economic competitiveness. Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University and an outspoken advocate for reinventing the public research university, conceived the New American University model when he moved from Columbia University to Arizona State in 2002. Following a comprehensive reconceptualization spanning more than a decade, ASU has emerged as an international academic and research powerhouse that serves as the foundational prototype for the new model. Crow has led the transformation of ASU into an egalitarian institution committed to academic excellence, inclusiveness to a broad demographic, and maximum societal impact. In Designing the New American University, Crow and coauthor William B. Dabars—a historian whose research focus is the American research university—examine the emergence of this set of institutions and the imperative for the new model, the tenets of which may be adapted by colleges and universities, both public and private. Through institutional innovation, say Crow and Dabars, universities are apt to realize unique and differentiated identities, which maximize their potential to generate the ideas, products, and processes that impact quality of life, standard of living, and national economic competitiveness. Designing the New American University will ignite a national discussion about the future evolution of the American research university.