Higher Education Cannot Escape History: Issues for the Twenty-first CenturyClark Kerr, President Emeritus and Former Chancellor and Professor Emeritus Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade, Maureen Kawaoka SUNY Press, 1994 M01 1 - 248 pages As we approach the end of the twentieth century and enter the twenty-first, the nation's system of colleges and universities, as well as higher education around the world, will face some enduring conflicts and contradictions--the basic challenges that must be confronted and solved again and again in every generation. These include nationalization versus internationalization in higher education, merit in academic pursuits versus equality of treatment, the preservation of the past versus improvement of the present or changes in the future, differentiation of functions among higher education institutions versus their homogenization in a world of mass access, and commitment to ethical conduct in the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge versus exploitation of the process for individual gain. This book outlines possible solutions to these dilemmas that will enable higher education to continue to serve its own imperatives as well as contribute to the quality of life around the world in the coming years and decades. |
Contents
Central Issues and Converging Solutions | xiii |
The NationState and the Internationalization of the Enterprise of Learning | 1 |
Introduction | 3 |
Allegiances The NationState and the World of Learning | 5 |
Current Contradictions Universalism versus Nationalism in the University World | 19 |
Global Perspectives in Education | 31 |
Heritage versus Equality versus Merit | 39 |
Introduction | 41 |
Knowledge Ethics and the New Academic Culture | 129 |
Introduction | 131 |
The Academic Ethic and the Professoriate A Disintegrating Profession? | 137 |
Academic Citizenship in Decline | 149 |
Missions and Purposes The Many Choices | 157 |
Introduction | 159 |
Alternative Approaches to Higher Education | 163 |
Mission of the University Reexamined | 167 |
Accumulated Heritage Faces Modern Imperatives | 43 |
Equality Rising Controversies over What It Means | 53 |
Meritocratic Higher Education in a World of Universal Access Higher Education | 61 |
Differentiation versus Homogenization of Functions among Institutions of Higher Education | 79 |
Introduction | 81 |
A TwentyfirstCentury Convergence Model of Higher Education both Universal Access and Advancement of Merit | 85 |
The Research and Advanced Training Component within the Convergence Model | 101 |
The California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960 An Ex Ante View | 111 |
A Digest of the California Master Plan | 127 |
The Purposes of Higher Education in the United States | 181 |
Other Statements of Purposes of Higher Education | 209 |
Competing Visions of the Future | 213 |
Introduction | 215 |
Ice Age or New Horizons The Wheel of Education | 217 |
Higher Education and External History Cannot Escape Each Other | 229 |
Looking Backward to Look Forward | 233 |
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Higher Education Cannot Escape History: Issues for the Twenty-first Century Clark Kerr Limited preview - 1993 |
Higher Education Cannot Escape History: Issues for the Twenty-first Century Clark Kerr No preview available - 1993 |
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