The Universities Today: Scholarship, Self-Interest, and Politics
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0761810064 / Publisher: University Press of America, March 1998
The author's aim is to write for students, parents, concerned citizens and academics in a way that will help all to cope constructively with the current crisis in American higher education.
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Analyzes the organization and values of higher educational institutions today by explaining the various roles in and connected to higher education, and attempts to show educators how to do a better job of teaching, researching, and serving the wider community. Looks at aspects including faculty work, faculty politics, the politics of violence and harassment, student learning and politics, and changing universities. Includes brief profiles of faculty members. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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