Higher learning in America, 1980-2000 / edited by Arthur Levine.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Levine, Arthur
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1993], ©1993.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > United States > History > 20th century.
Universities and colleges > United States > History > 20th century.
Kerr, Clark, > 1911-2003.
Physical Description:xxiii, 383 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Government and higher education / Patrick M. Callan
  • The economy and higher education / Margaret Gordon
  • Federalism in American higher education / Martin Trow
  • Research universities in a new era : from the 1980s to the 1990s / Roger L. Geiger
  • Liberal arts colleges : what price survival? / David W. Breneman
  • Community colleges : making winners out of ordinary people / Leslie Koltai
  • California : a multisegment system / Neil J. Smelser
  • Higher education coordination : Australia and the United States / Lyman A. Glenny
  • The return to Europe : issues in post-communist higher education / Ladislav Cerych
  • Faculty : differentiation and dispersion / Burton R. Clark
  • The president : a precarious perch / Judith Block McLaughlin and David Riesman
  • Students : interests, culture, and activism / Philip G. Altbach
  • Governing boards / Joseph F. Kauffman
  • New dimensions for general education / Virginia Smith
  • The humanities in the 1990s / Alberta Arthurs
  • Hearts, brains, and education : a new alliance for science curriculum / Marian Cleeves Diamond
  • Improving the quality of instruction / K. Patricia Cross
  • Behind the open door : disadvantaged students / Flora Mancuso Edwards
  • Campus climate in the 1980s and 1990s : decades of apathy and renewal / Ernest L. Boyer
  • Diversity on campus / Arthur Levine
  • Standardized testing in a national context / Donald M. Stewart
  • Afterword : a personal note on Clark Kerr / James A. Perkins.