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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED331400 AUTHOR: Kerr, Clark
TITLE: The Great Transformation in Higher Education, 1960
1980.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 383 p.
AVAILABILITY: State University of New York Press, State
University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246 ($19.95 paperback;
ISBN-07914-0511-7--$59.50 hardcover).
ABSTRACT: This monograph collects 28 essays that were
originally published between 1960 and 1980, a period viewed
as the third major period in the history of U.S. higher
education with politicalization of the campus, a great wave
of attempted academic reform (and attendant
disappointments), and great public efforts to achieve
equality of opportunity. Some of the essays included are:
"The American Strategy among Several Alternatives--Five
Strategies for Education, and Their Major Variants";
"Structure--The American Mixture of Higher Education in
Perspective: Four Dimensions"; "Performance--Goals for and
Effectiveness of Systems of Higher Education"; "Ex
Ante--The Frantic Race to Remain Contemporary"; "A Possible
Residue: The Intellectual versus Society: A Source of
Conflict? (vignette)" "Changing Loci of Power--Governance
and Functions"; "Changing Administrative
Styles--Administration in an Era of Change and Conflict";
"Rebuilding Communities of Scholars--Toward the More
Perfect University"; "An Urban versus a Rural Society--The
Urban-Grant University: A Model for the Future"; and "The
Eternal Verities--Universities: Open to Truth and Merit."
References accompany each essay.
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KEY DESCRIPTORS: Futures-of-Society; Higher-Education;
Trend Analysis
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Change-Strategies; *Educational-Change;
*Educational-History; *Educational-Philosophy; *Educational
Trends; *Institutional-Mission
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