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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Higher education in American society. Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, c1981 (OCoLC)643914325 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip G Altbach; Robert Oliver Berdahl |
| ISBN: | 0879751657 : 9780879751654 0879751665 : 9780879751661 |
| OCLC Number: | 7659759 |
| Description: | 326 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Higher education in American society : an introduction / Robert O. Berdahl and Philip G. Altbach -- Part 1. The setting -- The university and the state : a historical overview / E.D. Duryea -- Autonomy and accountability : some fundamental issues / T.R. McConnell -- Academic freedom in delocalized academic institutions / Walter Metzer -- Political action, faculty autonomy and retrenchment : a decade of academic freedom, 1970-1980 / Sheila Slaughter -- Happenings on the way to the 1980s / Verne A. Stadtman -- Current and emerging issues facing American higher education / Clark Kerr and Marian Gade -- Part 2. External forces -- State government / John D. Millett -- The federal government and postsecondary education / Aims C. McGuinness Jr. -- The courts / Walter C. Hobbs -- Private constituencies and their impact on higher education / Fred F. Harcleroad -- Part 3. The academic community -- Stark realities : the academic profession in the 1980s / Philip G. Altbach -- The college student : a changing constituency / Arthur Levine -- Presidents and government boards / John W. Nason -- Stress and the academic dean / Donald J. McCarty and I. Philip Young -- Part 4. Concluding perspectives -- The insulated American : five lessons from abroad / Burton R. Clark -- Conclusion / Robert O. Berdahl and Philip G. Altbach. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Philip G. Altbach and Robert O. Berdahl. |
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