Higher education in America/ [electronic resource] / Derek Bok.
Call number: 378.73 Call Number: Ebook Material type:
TextLanguage: English Publication details: Princeton University Press, 2013.Description: 492 pISBN: - 9780691159140
- 9781400848300
- 378.73
- LA227.4
Chapter, Lesson, Part Introduction.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Part I: The Context.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Foreword (I).
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter One: The American System of Higher Education.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Two: Purposes, Goals, and Limits to Growth.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Three: The Governance of Nonprofit Universities.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Afterword (I).
Chapter, Lesson, Part Part II: Undergraduate Education.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Foreword (II).
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Four: Going to College and Earning a Degree.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Five: Paying for College: The Challenge for Policy-Makers and Academic Leaders.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Six: Entering the Right College.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Seven: The Expanding Audience for Higher Education.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Eight: What to Learn.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Nine: How to Teach.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Ten: Prospects for Reform.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Afterword (II).
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Eleven: Graduate Education.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Part III: Professional Education.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Foreword (III).
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Twelve: Medical Schools.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Thirteen: Law Schools.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Fourteen: Business Schools.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Afterword (III).
Chapter, Lesson, Part Part (IV): Research.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Foreword (IV).
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Fifteen: “Publish or Perish”.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Sixteen: The Changing Nature of Scientific Research.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Seventeen: The Environment for Research.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Afterword (IV).
Chapter, Lesson, Part Part V: A Final Reckoning.
Chapter, Lesson, Part Foreword (V).
Chapter, Lesson, Part Chapter Eighteen: Matters of Genuine Concern.
Chapter, Lesson, Part The Last Word.
Cover, Title,Higher education in America--Preface, Introduction, TOC,Contents--Preface, Introduction, TOC,Acknowledgments--References, Appendix, Index,Notes--References, Appendix, Index,Index.
[Auto Generated] Acknowledgments Writing this book led me into many areas of higher education with which I had no direct experience .I might never have attempted such a task had I not been able to seek the counsel of a variety of friends and colleagues .A number of them kindly read particular chapters and offered valuable comments :Sandy Baum ,Hilary Bok ,Joe Bower ,Bill Fitzsimmons ,David Garvin ,Elizabeth Huidekoper ,Andy Kaufman ,Rakesh Khurana ,David Korn ,Richard Light ,Mike McPherson ,Martha Minow ,Vel Nair ,David Nathan ,John Simon ,and Lloyd Weinreb .Bob Atwell ,a longtime comrade-in-arms from our days working together at the American Council on Education ,read all of part 1 and offered many helpful comments .My close friend and colleague Henry Rosovsky ...
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