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The price of excellence :
(Neusner Jacob) |
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Bibliographical information (record 204297) |
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The price of excellence : |
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universities in conflict during the Cold War era / |
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Author:
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Neusner Jacob
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Continuum,
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0826408532 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Edition: |
1995.
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Classification: |
LC173 |
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379.73 |
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-245) and index.
- I. The Loss of Vocation. II. The Modern History of the American University: Where It Began. III. The Special, American Excellence. IV. The Cold War and Higher Education -- 1. Intellectual Arms for the Twilight Struggle. I. The Cold War and the Academy. II. Before the Reform of Secondary Education. III. The Advent of Scholarship on Campus. IV. General Education for a Global Vision. V. The Professional Revolution among the Professors. VI. Scholarship and Higher Education: The Curriculum Changes. VII. A New Breed of Student. VIII. The Sectarian and Parochial Institutions. IX. To Be Young Was Very Heaven. X. First Flower of Our Wilderness: Harvard Class of 1954. XI. Henry Fellow at Oxford University. Italy, Germany, Israel, England. XII. The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Columbia University. XIII. Graduate Studies. XIV. The Kent Fellows of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education. XV. Academic Snobbery. XVI. The Cold War and Me -- 2. Sputnik! I. The Golden Decade. II. The Intellectual Expansion. Area Studies. III. A Meteoric Career. IV. Move Over, Deans, Provosts, President - We're from the Government, and We're Here to Solve Your Problems. V. The Challenge of Mass Education: Teaching and Research Part Company. VI. Professorial Governance. VII. The Catholic, Black, and Women's Colleges. VIII. Vision Problems and the New Spectacles. IX. Getting Fired (I). X. Publishing Too Much. XI. Getting Fired (2). XII. Not Defrocked but Unsuited. XIII. Paradise. XIV. Finally, a Real Job ... XV. ... in a Real Academic Field -- 3. Parrot's Beak. I. The Campus Calamity. II. The Golden Decade Ends. III. The Old Order Changes: Generations Move On. IV. Turning Gold into Lead. V. The Magaziner Report. VI. The Country Turns against the Academy. VII. Wall Street and Madison Avenue Meet on Campus. VIII. Lost Faith, Lost Trust. IX. A Depression? Averted, But Not Forever. X. Losing Luster. XI. Leaving Dartmouth. XII. The Ethnicization of Learning. XIII. The New Egalitarianism on Campus. XIV. Teaching. XV. Scholarship. XVI. Defender of the Faith -- 4. The Great Tradition Dies. I. The Campus and the Country Part Company. II. "A Commencement Speech You'll Never Hear" That the Whole World Heard. III. The Dumbing Down of the Universities. IV. Reagan's Revenge. V. Dead, White, Male and Proud of It. VI. Turning Inward. VII. Falling Behind. VIII. The Consumer Is Always Right. IX. The Other Choice. X. A Career Concludes, the Ostracism Commences. XI. Scholarship Makes No Difference Here. XII. A Time of Troubles. XIII. Getting Fired - Again. XIV. Restoring Reason, Renewing Rationality. XV. It's the Faculty, Stupid!
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