In Defense of American Higher Education

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Contents: Introduction Part One - The University in SocietyChapter 1: The American Academic Model in Comparative Perspective - Philip G. Altbach Chapter Two: Higher Education as a Mature Industry - Arthur Levine Chapter Three: The Crisis in Higher Education: Is that a Wolf or a Pussycat at the Academy's Door? - Robert Birnbaum and Frank Shushok Jr. Chapter Four: Built to Serve: The Enduring Legacy of Public Higher Education - Patricia J. Gumport Chapter 5: The Mass Higher Education to Universal Access: The American Advantage - Martin Trow Chapter 6: Higher Education and Those Out of Control Costs - D. Bruce Johnstone Part Two - Within the Academy Chapter 7: The Liberal Arts and the Role of Elite Higher Education - Nannerl O. Keohane Chapter 8: The Technological Revolution: Reflections on the Proper Role of Technology in Higher Education - Jack M. Wilson Chapter 9: Academic Change and Presidential Leadership - Richard M. Freeland Chapter 10: Graduate Education and Research - Jules B. Lapidus Chapter 11: College Students Today: Why We Can't Leave Serendipity To Chance - George D. Kuh Chapter 12: Governance: The Remarkable Ambiguity - George Keller Chapter 13: Understanding the American Academic Profession - Martin J. Finkelstein List of Contributors Index

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