Research and relevant knowledge : American research universities since World War II / Roger L. Geiger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geiger, Roger L., 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Research--United States--History.

Research.

Universities and colleges--Research--United States--History.

Universities and colleges.

Universities and colleges--Research.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 411 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Contents:

1. Origins of the Federal Research Economy 3

1. The Organization of Research for War 3

2. Universities and War Research 6

3. Postwar Federal Science Policy 13

4. The Postwar Federal Research Economy 19

2. Research Universities in the Postwar Era, 1945-1957 30

1. From War to Peace to Cold War 30

2. The Burdens of Finance 40

3. Organized Research in Postwar Universities 47

4. An Autonomous Research Mission and Its Discontents 58

3. The Development of Universities in the Postwar Era 62

1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 63

2. The University of California, Berkeley 73

3. Yale University 82

4. Private Foundations and the Research Universities, 1945-1960 92

1. Foundations and Academic Social Science 94

2. Foundation Support for University Advancement 110

5. University Advancement from the Postwar Era to the 1960s 117

1. Stanford University 118

2. The University of California, Los Angeles 135

3. The University of Pittsburgh 146

6. The Transformation of Federal Research Support in the Sputnik Era 157

1. The 1950s Research Economy and the Rise of NSF 157

2. Sputnik 161

3. The Politics of Academic Science 166

4. Federal Support and the Golden Age of Academic Science 173

7. The Golden Age on Campus: The Research Universities in the 1960s 198

1. The Evolving University: Contemporary Perceptions 198

2. Changing Patterns of Research and New Research Universities 203

3. Academic Quality and Institutional Development 211

4. Graduate Education in the 1960s 217

8. Dissolution of a Consensus 230

1. The Student Rebellion 230

2. The Financial Crisis of the Research Universities 243

3. A Deeper Malaise 252

9. Surviving the Seventies 270

1. The State of Universities in the Mid-1970s 270

2. The University of Arizona 273

3. Georgia Institute of Technology 283

4. Private Industry and University Research 296

10. The New Era of the 1980s 310

1. Turning Outward 310

2. Research in the 1980s 320

3. Centrifugal Forces 326

4. Research Universities and American Society 331.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

019505346X

OCLC:

26128211