The Academy in Crisis: Political Economy of Higher EducationJohn Sommer Routledge, 2018 M05 4 - 340 pages The Academy in Crisis is a provocative contribution to an important debate....The costs of goverment support for American universities are not negligible. They include stress on some of the core values of universities and of science-vaules like openness, collaboration, and collegiality-and pressure, too, on other central institutional responsibilities, such as the education of undergradutes. Robert M. Rosenzweig, former president, Association of American Universities. |
Contents
Foreword | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction to Part I | |
The Political Context of Higher Education in | |
A History and Critical Analysis | |
Higher Education the Individual and the Humane Sciences | |
Introduction to Part II | |
The Economics of Higher Education | |
The Economics of Fundamental Research | |
Property Rights in Academe | |
Normative and Positive Theories of Science and Technology Policy | |
Science and Technology for Economic Ends | |
Universities and the Training of Scientists | |
About the Contributors | |
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