TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kerr,Clark
TI  - Troubled Times for American Higher Education: The 1990s and Beyond
T2  - SUNY Series, Frontiers in Education Series
SN  - 9781438408835
AV  - LA227.4 -- .K47 1993eb 
U1  - 378.73 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
KW  - Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- United States
KW  - Education, Higher -- Economic aspects -- United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENTS -- PROLOGUE: A NEW AGE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION -- PART I: APPROACHING THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY -- Introduction: Approach with Caution -- 1. Contours of the Future for American Higher Education: Aspects of Mature Development -- 2. Challenges to Be Faced: Advancing the Quality of the Future Performance of American Higher Education -- 3. New Focus on Leadership -- PART II: HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE ECONOMY: AN INCREASINGLY DOMINANT CONNECTION -- Introduction: From God to Mammon -- 4. How Well Has Higher Education in the United States Met the Test of Service to the Labor Market? -- 5. The Corporation and the University: The American Experience -- 6. The Decline of the American Economy I: Is Education Guilty or Not? -- 7. The Decline of the American Economy II: Who Then Is Guilty, and Are There Solutions? -- PART III: THE 1990s AND BEYOND: SOME SPECIAL PERPLEXITIES -- 8. Prospects for the 1990s -- 9. Restoring Quality to Undergraduate Education -- 10. Comment on the Special Problem of Teaching about Ethics -- 11. The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education -- 12. Solving the Selective Admissions Dilemma: A Two-Stage Model for Higher Education -- 13. The New Race to Be Harvard or Berkeley or Stanford -- EPILOGUE: ON FACING THE UNKNOWN -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
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