End of academic freedom : the coming obliteration of the core purpose of the university / by William M. Bowen, Michael Schwartz and Lisa Camp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowen, William M., author.

Schwartz, Michael, 1937-2024, author.

Camp, Lisa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--United States--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlotte, North Carolina : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Plaintext description.

Contents:

""Front Cover ""; ""End of Academic Freedom""; ""The Coming Obliteration of the Core Purpose of the University""; ""CONTENTS""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""A Brief History of the Purpose of American Higher Education""; ""America Grows along With its Higher Education Institutions""; ""The Late 19th and Early 20th Century Economy: Roots of Academic Freedom""; ""Moving into the 21st Century: Higher Education and the Public Reunite""; ""The Core Purpose of the University""; ""Job Creation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurialism as the Core Purposes of Universities""

""Governance and Control of Universities""""Competent Authority in the Marketplace of Ideas""; ""The Higher Education of Individual Purpose""; ""Understanding Today�s Universities""; ""Specialization, Technology, and the Quantity of Knowledge""; ""Specialization, Ignorance, and their Explanation""; ""Unintended and Unanticipated Consequences""; ""Communication, Cooperation, and the Foundations of Higher Education""; ""The Ins and Outs of Knowledge Formation in University Communities""; ""Hierarchical Control from Without vs. Autonomous Control from Within""

""Requisite Hierarchy for University Governance and Control""""The Vital Function of Ideational Variety in Knowledge Formation1""; ""Characterization of Knowledge""; ""Knowledge Acquisition and the Learning Process: The Core of University Productivity""; ""Requisite Variety of Ideas and Knowledge""; ""Why We Should Care about the Variety of Ideas""; ""Five Great Impediments to Academic Freedom""; ""The Great Impediments, Idea Failures, and Their Impacts on Society""; ""The Great Impediments and their Implications for Imagination and Creativity""; ""Great Impediments and the “-isms�""

""Great impediments and Unsustainable Lifestyles""""Surviving the Threats and Emerging as the Storehouse of Ideas""; ""A Question of Values""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""About the Authors""; ""NOTES ""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""ABOUT THE AUTHORS ""; ""Back Cover ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 14, 2014).

ISBN:

9781623966607

1623966604

OCLC:

923178818