Knowledge matters the public mission of the research university
Everyone from parents to policymakers has an interest in the mission of higher education, yet in many cases, the shifting relationship between public and private goods and public and private purposes has complicated that mission. Recent changes in organization, funding, and assessment have also altered the public purpose of universities. In this collection, scholars from around the world confront the realities of higher education and the future of its public and private agenda. Their perspective illuminates the trajectory of education in the twenty-first century and the continuing importance o
eBook, English, c2011
Columbia University Press New York, New York, c2011
1 online resource (559 p.).
9781283136020, 9786613136022, 9780231521833, 1283136023, 6613136026, 0231521839
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The public mission of the research university / Craig Calhoun
Great expectations, past promises, and golden ages: rethinking the "crisis" of public research universities / Gustavo E. Fischman, Sarah E. Igo, Diana Rhoten
"El central volumen de la fuerza": global hegemony in higher education and research / Simon Marginson, Imanol Ordorika
The state, the university, and society in Soviet and Russian higher education: the search for a new public mission / Mark S. Johnson, Andrey V. Kortunov
Public research universities in Latin America and their relation to economic development / Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Pablo Ruiz-Nápoles
When neoliberalism colonizes higher education in Asia: bringing the "public" back to the contemporary university / Ka Ho Mok
Challenges for higher education in Africa, Ubuntu, and democratic justice / Yusef Waghid
The idea of the public university and the national project in Africa: toward a full circle, from the 1960s to the present / N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
Rethinking what is made public in the university's public mission / John Willinsky
Public research universities: from land grant to federal grant to patent grant institutions / Diana Rhoten, Walter Powell
German universities in the new knowledge ecology: current changes in research conditions and university-industry relations / Stefan Lange, Georg Krücken
The micropolitics of knowledge in England and Europe: the Cambridge University IPRs controversy and its macropolitical lessons / Voldemar Tomusk
Playing the quality game: whose quality and whose higher education? / John Brennan, Mala Singh
The academic workplace: what we already know, what we still do not know, and what we would like to know / Christine Musselin
Cultural formations of the public university: globalization, diversity, and the state at the University of Michigan / Michael D. Kennedy
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