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9780791417065

Troubled Times for American Higher Education

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791417065

  • ISBN10:

    0791417069

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-01-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Table of Contents

Prologue: A New Age for Higher Education
Approaching the Twenty-first Century
Introduction: Approach with Caution
Contours of the Future for American Higher Education: Aspects of Mature Development
Challenges to Be Faced: Advancing the Quality of the Future Performance of American Higher Education
New Focus on Leadership
Higher Education and the Economy: An Increasingly Dominant Connection Introduction: From God to Mammon
How Well Has Higher Education in the United States Met the Test of Service to the Labor Market?
The Corporation and the University: The American Experience
The Decline of the American Economy I: Is Education Guilty or Not?
The Decline of the American Economy II: Who Then Is Guilty, and Are There Solutions?
The 1990s and Beyond: Some Special Perplexities
Introduction: A Mince Pie
Prospects for the 1990s
Restoring Quality to Undergraduate Education
Annex: Mutations in Undergraduate Education in the United States-Early 1970s
Comment on the Special Problem of Teaching about Ethics
The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education
Solving the Selective Admissions Dilemma: A Two-Stage Model for Higher Education
The New Race to Be Harvard or Berkeley or Stanford
Epilogue: On Facing the Unknown
Index
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