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 | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781033321256 |
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 | : Edwin Emery Slosson |
Publisher | : Ayer Company Pub |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780405100215 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : College stories |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Jonathan R. Cole |
Publisher | : Public Affairs |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2016-01-26 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1610392655 |
A renowned academic leader identifies the ways America's great universities should evolve in the decades ahead to maintain their global preeminence and enhance their intellectual stature and social mission as higher education confronts the twenty-first-century developments in technology, humanities, culture, and economics. Jonathan R. Cole, former provost and current University Professor at Columbia University, addresses some of the biggest challenges facing the modern American university: • developing effective admission policies, • creating the most meaningful examinations, • dealing with rising costs, • making undergraduate education central to the university's mission, • exploring the role of the humanities, • facilitating new discoveries and innovation, • determining the place for professional schools, • developing the research campuses of the future, • assessing the role of sports, • designing leadership and governance, • and combating intellectual and legal threats to academic freedom.
Author | : Loren Pope |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2006-07-25 |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : 1101221348 |
Prospective college students and their parents have been relying on Loren Pope's expertise since 1995, when he published the first edition of this indispensable guide. This new edition profiles 41 colleges—all of which outdo the Ivies and research universities in producing performers, not only among A students but also among those who get Bs and Cs. Contents include: Evaluations of each school's program and "personality" Candid assessments by students, professors, and deans Information on the progress of graduates This new edition not only revisits schools listed in previous volumes to give readers a comprehensive assessment, it also addresses such issues as homeschooling, learning disabilities, and single-sex education.