Toward a more perfect university, Jonathan R. Cole
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Toward a more perfect university, Jonathan R. Cole
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-389) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Toward a more perfect university
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
905686249
Responsibility statement
Jonathan R. Cole
Summary
"A renowned academic leader identifies the ways America's great universities should evolve in the decades ahead to maintain their global preeminence and enhance their intellectual stature and social mission as higher education confronts the twenty-first-century developments in technology, humanities, culture, and economics"--, Dust jacket"Jonathan R. Cole, former provost and current University Professor at Columbia University, addresses some of the biggest challenges facing the modern American university: developing effective admission policies; creating the most meaningful examinations; dealing with rising costs; making undergraduate education central to the university's mission; exploring the role of the humanities; facilitating new discoveries and innovation; determining the place for professional schools; developing the research campuses of the future; assessing the role of sports; designing leadership and governance; and combating intellectual and legal threats to academic freedom"--, Publisher description
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- Hochschulbildung
- Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration
- Universities and colleges -- United States
- Education, Higher + Curricula -- United States
- USA
- Education, Higher + Curricula
- Universities and colleges + Administration
- United States
- Education, Higher -- United States
- Universities and colleges
- Education, Higher
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- Hochschulbildung
- Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration
- Universities and colleges -- United States
- Education, Higher + Curricula -- United States
- USA
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- United States
- Education, Higher -- United States
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