Remaking The American University
Subtitle: Market-smart And Mission-centered
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: August 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780813536248
Subjects: Organization & management of education; Universities / polytechnics; United States; Education / Teaching; Aims and objectives; Higher; Education; USA; Education, Higher; Administration - General; Economic aspects; Educational change
First sentence: For more than two decades we have been writing about the transformation of the American university-in books, monographs, and a host of essays, many of which first appeared in Change magazine, but mostly in the pages of Policy Perspectives.
Description: "Remaking the American University provides a penetrating analysis of the ways market forces have shaped and distorted the behaviors, purposes, and ultimately the missions of universities and colleges over the past half-century." "Can universities and colleges today still choose to be places of public purpose? In the answers they provide, both sobering and enlightening, the authors underscore a consistent and powerful lesson - academic institutions, cannot ignore the workings of the markets. The challenge ahead is to learn how to better use those markets for the greater public good."--Jacket.