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Higher education in American society

Author: Philip G Altbach; Robert Oliver Berdahl
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, ©1981.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Higher education in American society.
Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, c1981
(OCoLC)643914325
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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