The Academy in Crisis: The Political Economy of Higher EducationJohn W. Sommer Transaction Publishers - 329 страници "The Academy in Crisis is a provocative contribution to an important debate....The costs of goverment support for American universities are not negligible. They include stress on some of the core values of universities and of science-vaules like openness, collaboration, and collegiality-and pressure, too, on other central institutional responsibilities, such as the education of undergradutes." Robert M. Rosenzweig, former president, Association of American Universities |
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... engineers and doctors? Let other countries train them! We, being economically more rational, would benefit from their irrational decisions. This is a rather startling suggestion and leads us to ask ourselves not only what value we place ...
... engineers and doctors? Let other countries train them! We, being economically more rational, would benefit from their irrational decisions. This is a rather startling suggestion and leads us to ask ourselves not only what value we place ...
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... engineering and the sciences, the majority of the graduate students are from foreign countries. One may take this as recognition of superiority of the educational experience offerred by American universities; alternatively, it may ...
... engineering and the sciences, the majority of the graduate students are from foreign countries. One may take this as recognition of superiority of the educational experience offerred by American universities; alternatively, it may ...
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... engineering programs in the past may have contributed substantially to the diminished capacity of the American science and engineering community to address the applications side of technological development today. In a 1981 study of the ...
... engineering programs in the past may have contributed substantially to the diminished capacity of the American science and engineering community to address the applications side of technological development today. In a 1981 study of the ...
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... engineering fields, which “are of concern to the government.” Geiger, in his study of the growth of American re- search universities, points out that the trend had been building from the early 1900s and that the progress of ...
... engineering fields, which “are of concern to the government.” Geiger, in his study of the growth of American re- search universities, points out that the trend had been building from the early 1900s and that the progress of ...
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... Engineering at Leading Research Institutions (Executive Summary. Final Report to the National Science Foundation of grant number #SRS-8018112, November 16, 1981), p.28. Added emphasis mine. 6. A survey of scientists conducted by a ...
... Engineering at Leading Research Institutions (Executive Summary. Final Report to the National Science Foundation of grant number #SRS-8018112, November 16, 1981), p.28. Added emphasis mine. 6. A survey of scientists conducted by a ...
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The Political Context of Higher | 45 |
A History and Critical Analysis | 69 |
Higher Education the Individual and the Humane Sciences | 95 |
The Political Economy of Higher Learning | 127 |
The Economics of Higher Education | 135 |
The Economics of Fundamental Research | 171 |
Property Rights in Academe | 197 |
Normative and Positive Theories of Science | 225 |
Science and Technology for Economic Ends | 257 |
Universities and the Training of Scientists | 287 |
About the Contributors | 305 |
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