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The creation of the future : the role of the American university / Frank H.T. Rhodes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rhodes, Frank H. T. (Frank Harold Trevor)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
- United States.
- Universities and colleges--United States.
- Universities and colleges.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 265 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- The rise of the American university
- The American research university today
- Transforming professionalism
- Restoring community
- Teaching as a moral vocation
- Undergraduate education : recapturing the curriculum
- Professional and graduate education
- The cost of higher education
- Research : a public trust
- Service as a societal obligation : from farms to corporate America to inner cities
- Information technology
- Governance and leadership
- The new university.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-256) and index.
- ISBN:
- 080143937X
- OCLC:
- 46732378
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