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Toward a More Perfect University

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Description for Toward a More Perfect University Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 246 x 41. Weight in Grams: 692.
A renowned academic leader identifies the ways America's great universities should evolve in the decades ahead to maintain their global preeminence and enhance their intellectual stature and social mission as higher education confronts the twenty-first-century developments in technology, humanities, culture, and economics.Jonathan R. Cole, former provost and current University Professor at Columbia University, addresses some of the biggest challenges facing the modern American university: developing effective admission policies, creating the most meaningful examinations, dealing with rising costs, making undergraduate education central to the university's mission, exploring the role of the humanities, facilitating new discoveries and innovation, determining the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781610392655
SKU
V9781610392655
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About Jonathan Cole
Jonathan R. Cole, currently the John Mitchell Mason Professor at Columbia University, is widely known throughout the United States for his fourteen years (1989-2003) as Columbia's provost, holding the position for the second-longest tenure in the university's 250-year history. He has also served as dean of faculties and vice president for arts and sciences. He lives in New York.

Reviews for Toward a More Perfect University
Has the feel of a long memo from a central administrative office...But there is serious content in the book and I very much hope the memo gets read... Mr. Cole is surely right that rebuilding the trust between the people's representatives and great universities is essential
not just for the benefit of the happy few on campus but for the country ... Read more

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