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. |
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The Academy in Crisis: Political Economy of Higher Education Arthur Asa Berger No preview available - 2017 |
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