The Strength of the University : A Selection from the Addresses of Claude T. Bissell / Claude Bissell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bissell, Claude, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher.

Universities and colleges--Canada.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The addresses in this book have been selected from among those given by Dr. Bissell, on many occasions, to many different groups ofp eople, over the last twelve years. In them he expresses some of his attitudes to the roleo f the university today, its strengths, and its weaknesses. He discusses such matters as the myth of the ivory forever, the effect on the univeristy of the new radicalism and awareness of power on the part of the student; the necessity of maintaining a balance between the demands of undergraduate and graduate studies, between the speecd for professional training, and the study of the humanities, the concept of "double innocence' which has been operative in the administrative framework of Canadian universities and the necessity of change in this framework; what the role of the university should be as patron of and training ground for the arts. Dr. Bissell has firm convictions and high ideals and does not hesitate to make them known to the reader. As a profession of faith from the president of Canada's largest university this is fascinating reading for everyone who is aware of the importance of the university in the world today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Contents

The Strength of the University

PART I: THE STUDENTS

Angular, not Spherical

The Right to be Angular

Our Youthful Society

The New Radicalism

The Multiversity: Berkeley and Toronto

PART II: THE PLACE AND THE WORK

The College and the Ivory Tower

Professionalism and the Humanities

The University and the Arts

University Libraries in the new Intellectual Environment

The Reform of University Government

Characteristics of a Great University

PART III: THE ROLE AND THE PURPOSE

Business and the University

The University and Canadian-American Relations

The University and Moral Values

Academic Freedom: Individual and Institutional

The Independence of Universities

Education and Power

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7199-2

OCLC:

1125190622