The Modern Land-Grant University
In an increasingly competitive higher education environment, Americas public universities are seeking ways to differentiate themselves. This book suggests that a hopeful vision of what a university should be lies in a reexamination of the land-grant mission, the common system of values originally set forth in the Morrill Land Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890, which established a new system of practically oriented higher learning across the United States. While hard to define, these values are often expressed by the one hundred or so institutions that currently define themselves as land grants under the three pillars of research, teaching, and enga…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61249-336-7
- EAN: 9781612493367
- Produktnummer: 18437824
- Verlag: Purdue University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 444 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'380 KB
Über den Autor
Robert J. Sternberg is professor of Human Development at Cornell University. He was previously president of the University of Wyoming and past president of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences and also of the American Psychological Association. Before moving to Wyoming, he was provost and senior vice president of Oklahoma State University, where this book was conceived. Previously, he was dean of arts and sciences at Tufts University and IBM professor of psychology and education and professor of management at Yale University.
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