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9780791417089

Higher Education Cannot Escape History

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791417089

  • ISBN10:

    0791417085

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-02-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Table of Contents

Prologue: Central Issues and Converging Solutions
The Nation-State and the Internationalization of the Enterprise of Learning
Introduction
Allegiances: The Nation-State and the World of Learning
Current Contradictions: Univeralism versus Nationalism in the University World
Annex: Global Perspective in Education
Heritage versus Equality versus Merit
Introduction
Accumulated Heritage Faces Modern Imperatives
"Equality": Rising Controversies over What It Means
Meritocratic Higher Education in a World of Universal-Access Higher Education
Differentiation versus Homogenization of Function among Institutions of Higher Education
Introduction
A Twenty-first-Century Convergence Model of Higher Education--both Universal Access and Advancement of Merit
The Research and Advanced Training Component within the Convergence Model
The California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960: An Ex Ante View
Annex: A Digest of the California Master Plan
Knowledge Ethics and the New Academic Culture
Introduction
The Academic Ethic and the Professoriate: A "Disintegrating Profession"?
Academic Citizenship in Decline
Missions and Purposes: The Many Choices
Introduction
Annex: Alternative Approaches to Higher Education
Mission of the University Reesxamined
The Purposes of Higher Education in the United States
Annex: Other Statements of Purposes of Higher Education
Competing Visions of the Future
Introduction
Ice Age or New Horizons--"The Wheel of Education"
Higher Education and External History Cannot Escape Each Other
Epilogue: Looking Backward to Look Forward
Index
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