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The Idea of a modern university.

Author: Sidney Hook; Paul Kurtz; Miro Todorovich; University Centers for Rational Alternatives.
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y., Prometheus Books [1974]
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Essays
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Idea of a modern university.
Buffalo, N.Y., Prometheus Books [1974]
(OCoLC)570384866
Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Sidney Hook; Paul Kurtz; Miro Todorovich; University Centers for Rational Alternatives.
ISBN: 0879750324 9780879750329
OCLC Number: 946979
Notes: Papers presented at a conference held at Rockefeller University, New York City, Feb. 21-22, 1972; sponsored by University Centers for Rational Alternatives.
Description: xix, 290 p. 23 cm.
Contents: Preface: By way of history / Miro Todorovich --
Introduction: The rationale of the problem / Sidney Hook --
[1.] Universal higher education: promise or illusion: The illusion of universal higher education / Fritz Machlup --
The promise of universal higher education / Patrick Suppes --
Democracy and higher education / Sidney Hook --
The travail and fate of higher education / Daniel P. Moynihan --
Gresham's law in education / Ernest van den Haag --
Comment / Ernest Nagel --
A reply to my critics / Fritz Machlup --
[2.] Higher education under fire: In defense of intellectual integrity / Arthur Bestor --
The betrayal of the Citadel / Robert Nisbet --
Historical facts in the decline of the university / Oscar Handlin --
The need for a philosophy of education / Irving Kristol --
The fragmentation of knowledge / Samuel Lubell --
A plea for pluralism: a dissenting note / Charles Frankel --
The content of a liberal education / Steven M. Cahn --
The irrelevance of relevance / Robert Hoffman --
Rationality in the contemporary university / Gray L. Dorsey --
Some things we need / Stephen Tonsor --
An economist's view / Abba Lerner --
Education and a free society / Edward J. Rozek --
Academic freedom and authoritarianism / Henry R. Novotny --
[3.] The crucial problems of the modern university: The role of the faculty / John R. Searle --
Collective bargaining in higher education / John H. Bunzel --
The affirmative-action program of HEW / Paul Seabury --
Excellence and irrelevance: democracy and higher education / Paul Kurtz --
The ethnic revolution and public policy / Richard Gambino --
The decline of professional morale / Glenn R. Morrow --
Equality and quality in education / Marvin Zimmerman --
Reflections on the agonies of the university / Abba Lerner --
A case study -May 1970 / Cyril Zebot --
Who is the enemy? / Seymour M. Lipset --
The torment of tenure / Nathan Glazer --
A dangerous precedent / Jack Hirshleifer --
Rationalizing the financing of higher education / Stephen Tonsor --
Scholarship and the humanistic tradition / Paul Oskar Kristeller --
The importance of a positive appeal / Louise Rosenblatt --
The challenge of general education / Theodore de Bary --
Reinforcing the challenge / Arthur Bestor --
In defense of quotas / Harold Chase --
The need for coalition and proper strategy / Isadore Blumen --
Counsel for the future / Samuel Lubell --
The scholar -news-media gap and public education / Leonard R. Sussman --
Concluding observations / John H. Bunzel --
Agenda for the future / John R. Searle.
Responsibility: Edited by Sidney Hook, Paul Kurtz [and] Miro Todorovich.

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