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Higher learning in America, 1980-2000

Title
Higher learning in America, 1980-2000 / edited by Arthur Levine.
Publication
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1993], ©1993.
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Additional Authors
Levine, Arthur.
Description
xxiii, 383 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003
  • Kerr, Clark, 1911-
  • Education, Higher > United States > History > 20th century
  • Universities and colleges > United States > History > 20th century
  • Enseignement supérieur > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle
  • Universités > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle
  • Hoger onderwijs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Preface / Arthur Levine -- Introduction / Eric Ashby -- Pt. I. A Dynamic Environment -- 1. Government and Higher Education / Patrick M. Callan -- 2. The Economy and Higher Education / Margaret Gordon -- Pt. II. Institutions in Transition -- 3. Federalism in American Higher Education / Martin Trow -- 4. Research Universities in a New Era: From the 1980s to the 1990s / Roger L. Geiger -- 5. Liberal Arts Colleges: What Price Survival? / David W. Breneman -- 6. Community Colleges: Making Winners Out of Ordinary People / Leslie Koltai -- 7. California: A Multisegment System / Neil J. Smelser -- 8. Higher Education Coordination: Australia and the United States / Lyman A. Glenny -- 9. The Return to Europe: Issues in Post-Communist Higher Education / Ladislav Cerych -- Pt. III. Changing Constituencies -- 10. Faculty: Differentiation and Dispersion / Burton R. Clark -- 11. The President: A Precarious Perch / Judith Block McLaughlin and David Riesman -- 12. Students: Interests, Culture, and Activism / Philip G. Altbach -- 13. Governing Boards / Joseph F. Kauffman -- Pt. IV. Evolving Curriculum and Disciplines -- 14. New Dimensions for General Education / Virginia Smith -- 15. The Humanities in the 1990s / Alberta Arthurs -- 16. Hearts, Brains, and Education: A New Alliance for Science Curriculum / Marian Cleeves Diamond -- Pt. V. Critical Issues -- 17. Improving the Quality of Instruction / K. Patricia Cross -- 18. Behind the Open Door: Disadvantaged Students / Flora Mancuso Edwards -- 19. Campus Climate in the 1980s and 1990s: Decades of Apathy and Renewal / Ernest L. Boyer -- 20. Diversity on Campus / Arthur Levine -- 21. Standardized Testing in a National Context / Donald M. Stewart -- Afterword: A Personal Note on Clark Kerr / James A. Perkins.
ISBN
  • 0801844576
  • 9780801844577
LCCN
  • 92019746
  • 99820020179
OCLC
  • 26051652
  • ocm26051652\
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Columbia University Libraries