The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0226038459
ISBN 13
9780226038452
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1993
Publisher
University of Chicago Press, United States
Pages
356
Subject
Education, Higher--United States.
Abstract
When it was published in 1968, a year noted for historic student protests on campuses across the country, The American University spoke in Jacques Barzun's characteristically wise and lucid voice about what colleges and universities were really meant to do--and how they actually worked. Drawing on a lifetime of extraordinary accomplishment as a teacher, administrator, and scholar, Barzun here describes the immense demands placed on the university by its competing constituencies--students, faculty, administrators, alumni, trustees, and the political world around it all.
Description
Introduction
Preface
Introductory
1. The New University
2. Scholars in Orbit
3. Students Or Victims?
4. Administrators Above and Below
5. Friends, Donors, Enemies
6. Poverty in the Midst of Plenty
7. The Higher Bankruptcy
8. The Choice Ahead
Appendices
Notes
Index
Preface
Introductory
1. The New University
2. Scholars in Orbit
3. Students Or Victims?
4. Administrators Above and Below
5. Friends, Donors, Enemies
6. Poverty in the Midst of Plenty
7. The Higher Bankruptcy
8. The Choice Ahead
Appendices
Notes
Index
Number of Copies
1
