The Great American UniversityThe Great American University
Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected
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Book, 2009
Current format, Book, 2009, 1st ed, No Longer Available.Book, 2009
Current format, Book, 2009, 1st ed, No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsAlthough America’s universities have become the envy of the world for their creative energy and their production of transformative knowledge, few understand how and why they have become preeminent. This groundbreaking book traces the origins and the evolution of our great universities. It shows how they grew out of sleepy colleges at the turn of the twentieth century into powerful institutions that continue to generate new industries and advance our standard of living. Far from inevitable, this transformation was enabled by a highly competitive system that invested public tax dollars in university research and students while granting universities substantial autonomy.
The former provost of Columbia University explores the vital role of America's research universities as engines of technological and economic growth--and illuminates the urgent need to protect them. 20,000 first printing.
The former provost of Columbia University explores the vital role of America’s research universities as engines of technological and economic growth?and illuminates the urgent need to protect them
Explores the vital role of America's research universities as engines of technological and economic growth and illuminates the urgent need to protect them.
Today, America’s universities face considerable threats. Even greater than foreign competition are the threats from within the United States. Under the Bush administration, government increasingly imposed ideological constraints on the freedom of academic inquiry. Restrictive visa policies instituted after 9/11 continue to discourage talented foreign graduate students from training in the United States. The international financial crisis, which has depleted university endowments and state investments in higher education, threatens the vitality of some of our greatest institutions of higher learning. In order to sustain and enhance the American tradition of excellence, we must nurture this powerful—yet underappreciated—national resource.
The former provost of Columbia University explores the vital role of America's research universities as engines of technological and economic growth--and illuminates the urgent need to protect them. 20,000 first printing.
The former provost of Columbia University explores the vital role of America’s research universities as engines of technological and economic growth?and illuminates the urgent need to protect them
Explores the vital role of America's research universities as engines of technological and economic growth and illuminates the urgent need to protect them.
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- New York, NY : PublicAffairs, c2009.
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