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The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University

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Description for The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University Paperback. Based on new data and new analytical frameworks, this book assesses the forces of change at play in the development of American universities and their prospects for the future. Editor(s): Brint, Steven. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.

Based on new data and new analytical frameworks, this book assesses the forces of change at play in the development of American universities and their prospects for the future. The book begins with a lengthy introduction by Clark Kerr that not only provides an overview of change since the time he coined the phrase “the city of intellect” but also discusses the major changes that will affect American universities over the next thirty years.

Part One examines demographic and economic changes, such as the rise of nearly universal higher education, private gift and corporate sponsorship of research, new labor market ... Read more

The contributors include many of today’s leading scholars of higher education. They are Andrew Abbott, Steven Brint, Richard Chait, Burton R. Clark, Randall Collins, David J. Collis, Roger L. Geiger, Patricia J. Gumport, Clark Kerr, Richard A. Lanham, Jason Owen-Smith, Walter W. Powell, Sheila Slaughter, and Carol Tomlinson-Keasey.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804745314
SKU
V9780804745314
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Unknown
Steven Brint is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author, most recently, of Schools and Societies.

Reviews for The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University
"As a collection that brings together the elements of scholarly debate with some nice field work—and includes a retrospective by the greatest of all American university presidents, Clark Kerr. . . . It possesses the great virtue of seriously adding to our understanding of how universities do or do not change in response to multiple and numbing pressure."—Sheldon Rothblatt, University ... Read more

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