Research Catalog

Title

German universities, past and future : crisis or renewal? / edited by Mitchell G. Ash.

Publication

Providence, RI : Berghahn Books, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ash, Mitchell G.
• American Institute for Contemporary German Studies.

Description

xx, 260 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"In the late 1980s, commentators generally agreed that West German universities were in a state of crisis. Now that universities in East Gemany have been restructured largely in the image of the West German system, the question is whether true reform of the whole German university can and will finally begin. Answering this question will make an important statement about the vitality of cultural institutions in the new Germany. This volume examines the historical background and future prospects of German universities. The contributors include historians of German universities as well as current university leaders and higher-education policy-makers from Germany and the United States."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Policies and institutions ; [v. 1]

Uniform Title

Policies and institutions ; v. 1.

Alternative Title

German universities

Subject

• Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835 > Congresses
• Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835
• Humboldt, Wilhelm von, (1767-1835) > Congrès
• Universities and colleges > Germany > History > Congresses
• Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > Germany > Congresses
• Education, Higher > Political aspects > Germany > Congresses
• Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
• Education, Higher > Political aspects
• Universities and colleges
• Kongress
• Universität
• Universiteiten
• Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > Germany > Congresses
• Education, Higher > Political aspects > Germany > Congresses
• Universities and colleges > Germany > History > Congresses
• Universités > Allemagne > Histoire > Congrès
• Enseignement supérieur > Finalités > Congrès. > Allemagne
• Germany
• Deutschland

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• History

Note

• Revised versions of papers and invited commentaries, as well as selections from the discussion, of a conference held at the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, November 1995, and sponsored by the Harry and Helen Gray Humanities Program of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-253) and index.

Contents

A slow farewell to Humboldt? Stages in the history of German universities, 1810-1945 / Rüdiger vom Bruch -- The Humboldt syndrome: West German universities, 1945-1989 -- an academic Sonderweg? / Konrad H. Jarausch -- Humboldt coopted: East German universities, 1945-1989 / John Connelly -- Unification in German higher education: "renewal" of the importation of crisis? / Mitchell G. Ash -- Comment: unification in German higher education / Gunnar Berg -- Mythos Humboldt today: teaching, research, and administration / Peter Lundgren -- Comment: Interpreting Humboldt for the twenty-first century / Daniel Fallon -- Political control and funding: the future of state sponsorship / Rainer Künzel -- Comment: Political control and funding in American universities / C. Peter Magrath -- Whom do German universities now serve? / Evelies Mayer -- Comment: German and American universities in the age of calculation / Steven Muller -- The universities and contemporary German political culture / Hans-Joachim Meyer.

ISBN

• 1571810706
• 9781571810700

LCCN

96052552

OCLC

• ocm36121425
• 36121425
• SCSB-8895962

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library