The Uses of the University: Fifth EditionAmerica's university president extraordinaire adds a new chapter and preface to The Uses of the University, probably the most important book on the modern university ever written. This summa on higher education brings the research university into the new century. |
Contents
The Idea of a Multiversity | 1 |
The Realities of the Federal Grant University | 35 |
The Future of the City of Intellect | 64 |
Reconsiderations after the Revolts of the 1960s | 96 |
Attempted Reforms That Failed | 114 |
Commentaries on the Golden Age of the Research University | 141 |
A New Age? From Increasing Federal Riches to Increasing State Poverty | 164 |
Hard Choices | 184 |
The City of Intellect in a Century for the Foxes? | 198 |
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