Over the past decade, America's research universities have been accused, with increasing frequency and passion, of a wide variety of sins. Universities do not devote enough attention to undergraduate education, the charge goes, or they pursue unnecessary research, or they award doctoral degrees that focus too narrowly and take too long to complete. What have these institutions done to provoke such criticism and why has financial support from both public and private sectors eroded? In The American University, a volume published in honor of Frank H. T. Rhodes, President Emeritus of Cornell University, distinguished scholars and administrators address these issues and suggest ways in which research universities can respond to current and future challenges. The challenges are complex, and the authors are willing to redefine fundamental objectives to rebuild public trust. Each essay addresses one of the issues on which the future of American research universities may pivot. What responsibilities does a university have to enhance social mobility? Why have the research partnerships between government and academia broken down? How comprehensive and how effective is undergraduate and graduate teaching? What are realistic prospects for the humanities and social sciences at the university, and what are the prospects for science and technology?
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AS WE APPROACH the beginning of the twenty-first century, America's research universities are among the jewels of our higher educational system. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, The State of Americans, Civil War, Urie Bronfenbrenner, World War, National Science Foundation, Cornell University, Neal Lane, Free Press, John Hope Franklin, Marye Anne Fox, Princeton University Press, Septem Artes Liberales, The Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush, Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Vest, Golden Age of Science, Government Printing Office, Mellon Foundation, The Classic Touch, University of Chicago Press, Viking Press, White Figure New!
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AS WE APPROACH the beginning of the twenty-first century, America's research universities are among the jewels of our higher educational system. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, The State of Americans, Civil War, Urie Bronfenbrenner, World War, National Science Foundation, Cornell University, Neal Lane, Free Press, John Hope Franklin, Marye Anne Fox, Princeton University Press, Septem Artes Liberales, The Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush, Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Vest, Golden Age of Science, Government Printing Office, Mellon Foundation, The Classic Touch, University of Chicago Press, Viking Press, White Figure New!
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- The State of Americans: This Generation and the Next by Urie Bronfenbrenner on 11 pages
- The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays by George Santayana by George Santayana on page 61, and page 76
- This Side Of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald on page 61, and page 79
- From Humanism to the Humanities: The Institutionalizing of the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Europe by Anthony Grafton on page 62, and page 72
- Science: The Endless Frontier by Vannevar Bush on page 44, and page 133
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