Education in a Research University

by Arrow, Kenneth J.; Cottle, Richard W.; Eaves, B. Curtis; Olkin, Ingram

• ISBN13: 9780804725958
• ISBN10: 0804725950
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

This collection of essays on the character, administration, and management of research universities concentrates on issues of systematic planning, planning models, teaching approaches, and management associated with the aims and methods of operations research. The book also deals with more general concerns about the management of universities and university resources, and with some of the applications of operations-research and statistical tools that have moved outside university settings.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Contributors
Introduction
A Robust Faculty Planning Model	p. 3
Looking Back at Computer Models Employed in the Stanford University Administration	p. 21
Faculty Retirement Policies: The Stanford Experience	p. 37
Applying Statistical Concepts and Approaches in Academic Administration	p. 65
Affirmative Action in Graduate Admissions: Stanford University in the 1980's	p. 83
University and Government, University and Industry: Examining a Changed Environment	p. 101
Student Revolt and Campus Reform in the 1960's: The Case of Stanford's Judicial Charter	p. 113
The University Fellows Program at Stanford: On Turning Scientists and Scholars into University Statesmen and Stateswomen	p. 123
Why a Medical School in a Research University	p. 137
Education and Technology at Stanford in the Twenty-first Century	p. 143
Searching for World-Class Educational Standards	p. 161
A Practitioner's View of Operations Research Ph. D. Education	p. 171
Practicing Operations Research (OR) and System Engineering in Workplaces Having Decentralized OR	p. 183
Teaching a Computing-Intensive Statistics Course	p. 201
My First Days' Lectures: Past and Present	p. 217
Courses for Learning the Practice of Operations Research	p. 231
Some Lessons Learned About Textbook Writing	p. 261
The DNA of Decision Science	p. 271
Evolution of the Required Quantitative Methods Course for M.B.A.'s at Indiana University	p. 285
The Challenge for Operations Research in American Graduate Business Schools	p. 295
Operations Research and Statistics in Manufacturing - An Educational Model	p. 307
Graduate Programs in the Mathematical Sciences: The Clemson Model	p. 323
Analysis and Judgment in Policymaking	p. 343
The Impact of Operations Research and Decision Theory on Teaching and Research in Microeconomics	p. 353
Linear Programming - The Story About How it Began	p. 373
Greenhouse Gas Abatement: Toward Pareto-Optimality in Integrated Assessments	p. 391
New Directions in Education: Computational Tools for the Molecular Biologists and Biological Sources for the Mathematician	p. 407
Phase II - Some Advanced Applications in Statistical Quality Control	p. 429
The Use of Statistics in Judicial Decisions	p. 463
Communication: Statistical Task and Statistical Tool	p. 481
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