The Great American University
Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected
Although America's universities have become the envy of the world for their creative energy and their production of transformative knowledge, few understand how and why they have become preeminent. This groundbreaking book traces the origins and the evolution of our great universities. It shows how they grew out of sleepy colleges at the turn of the twentieth century into powerful institutions that continue to generate new industries and advance our standard of living. Far from inevitable, this transformation was enabled by a highly competitive system that invested public tax dollars in university research and students while granting universi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7867-4619-4
- EAN: 9780786746194
- Produktnummer: 22911868
- Verlag: PublicAffairs
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 640 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'035 KB
Über den Autor
Jonathan R. Cole, currently the John Mitchell Mason Professor at Columbia University, is widely known throughout the United States for his fourteen years (1989-2003) as Columbia's provost, holding the position for the second-longest tenure in the university's 250-year history. He has also served as dean of faculties and vice president for arts and sciences. He lives in New York.
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