The Price of Excellence
Universities in Conflict during the Cold War Era
The Price of Excellence
Universities in Conflict during the Cold War Era
Description
The Price of Excellence is an account of what went wrong with the great experiment to educate America. Though the story bears a negative charge, it also conveys hopeful messages of faith in the future of higher education. It offers an objective historical analysis of the rise and fall of higher education by a researcher trained in the 1980s, and by a senior scholar who was both participant in creating the golden age of American higher education and a victim of its dissolution.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction:
Chapter 4 The Loss of Vocation
Chapter 5 The Modern History of the American University: Where It Began
Chapter 6 The Special, American Excellence
Chapter 7 The Cold War and Higher Education
Chapter 8 Intellectual Arms for the Twilight Struggle:
Chapter 9 The Cold War and the Academy
Chapter 10 Before the Reform of Secondary Education
Chapter 11 The Advent of Scholarship on Campus
Chapter 12 General Education for a Global Vision
Chapter 13 The Professional Revolution among the Professors
Chapter 14 Scholarship and Higher Education: The Curriculum Changes
Chapter 15 A New Breed of Student
Chapter 16 The Sectarian and Parochial Institutions
Chapter 17 To Be Young Was Very Heaven
Chapter 18 First Flower of Our Wilderness: Harvard Class of 1954
Chapter 19 Henry Fellow at Oxford University. Italy, Germany, Israel, England
Chapter 20 The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Columbia University
Chapter 21 Graduate Studies
Chapter 22 The Kent Fellows of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education
Chapter 23 Academic Snobbery
Chapter 24 The Cold War and Me
Chapter 25 Sputnik!:
Chapter 26 The Golden Decade
Chapter 27 The Intellectual Expansion. Area Studies
Chapter 28 A Meteoric Career
Chapter 29 Move Over, Deans, Provosts, President - We're from the Government, and We're Here to Solve Your Problems
Chapter 30 The Challenge of Mass Education: Teaching and Research Part Company
Chapter 31 Professorial Governance
Chapter 32 The Catholic, Black, and Women's Colleges
Chapter 33 Vision Problems and the New Spectacles
Chapter 34 Getting Fired (I)
Chapter 35 Publishing Too Much
Chapter 36 Getting Fired (2)
Chapter 37 Not Defrocked but Unsuited
Chapter 38 Paradise
Chapter 39 Finally, a Real Job ...
Chapter 40 ... in a Real Academic Field
Chapter 41 Parrot's Beak:
Chapter 42 The Campus Calamity
Chapter 43 The Golden Decade Ends
Chapter 44 The Old Order Changes: Generations Move On
Chapter 45 Turning Gold into Lead
Chapter 46 The Magaziner Report
Chapter 47 The Country Turns against the Academy
Chapter 48 Wall Street and Madison Avenue Meet on Campus
Chapter 49 Lost Faith, Lost Trust
Chapter 50 A Depression? Averted, But Not Forever
Chapter 51 Losing Luster
Chapter 52 Leaving Dartmouth
Chapter 53 The Ethnicization of Learning
Chapter 54 The New Egalitarianism on Campus
Chapter 55 Teaching
Chapter 56 Scholarship
Chapter 57 Defender of the Faith
Chapter 58 The Great Tradition Dies:
Chapter 59 The Campus and the Country Part Company
Chapter 60 "A Commencement Speech You'll Never Hear" That the Whole World Heard
Chapter 61 The Dumbing Down of the Universities
Chapter 62 Reagan's Revenge
Chapter 63 Dead, White, Male and Proud of It
Chapter 64 Turning Inward
Chapter 65 Falling Behind
Chapter 66 The Consumer Is Always Right
Chapter 67 The Other Choice
Chapter 68 A Career Concludes, the Ostracism Commences
Chapter 69 Scholarship Makes No Difference Here
Chapter 70 A Time of Troubles
Chapter 71 Getting Fired - Again
Chapter 72 Restoring Reason, Renewing Rationality
Chapter 73 It's the Faculty, Stupid!
Chapter 74 Bibliography
Chapter 75 Index
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction:
Chapter 4 The Loss of Vocation
Chapter 5 The Modern History of the American University: Where It Began
Chapter 6 The Special, American Excellence
Chapter 7 The Cold War and Higher Education
Chapter 8 Intellectual Arms for the Twilight Struggle:
Chapter 9 The Cold War and the Academy
Chapter 10 Before the Reform of Secondary Education
Chapter 11 The Advent of Scholarship on Campus
Chapter 12 General Education for a Global Vision
Chapter 13 The Professional Revolution among the Professors
Chapter 14 Scholarship and Higher Education: The Curriculum Changes
Chapter 15 A New Breed of Student
Chapter 16 The Sectarian and Parochial Institutions
Chapter 17 To Be Young Was Very Heaven
Chapter 18 First Flower of Our Wilderness: Harvard Class of 1954
Chapter 19 Henry Fellow at Oxford University. Italy, Germany, Israel, England
Chapter 20 The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Columbia University
Chapter 21 Graduate Studies
Chapter 22 The Kent Fellows of the National Council on Religion in Higher Education
Chapter 23 Academic Snobbery
Chapter 24 The Cold War and Me
Chapter 25 Sputnik!:
Chapter 26 The Golden Decade
Chapter 27 The Intellectual Expansion. Area Studies
Chapter 28 A Meteoric Career
Chapter 29 Move Over, Deans, Provosts, President - We're from the Government, and We're Here to Solve Your Problems
Chapter 30 The Challenge of Mass Education: Teaching and Research Part Company
Chapter 31 Professorial Governance
Chapter 32 The Catholic, Black, and Women's Colleges
Chapter 33 Vision Problems and the New Spectacles
Chapter 34 Getting Fired (I)
Chapter 35 Publishing Too Much
Chapter 36 Getting Fired (2)
Chapter 37 Not Defrocked but Unsuited
Chapter 38 Paradise
Chapter 39 Finally, a Real Job ...
Chapter 40 ... in a Real Academic Field
Chapter 41 Parrot's Beak:
Chapter 42 The Campus Calamity
Chapter 43 The Golden Decade Ends
Chapter 44 The Old Order Changes: Generations Move On
Chapter 45 Turning Gold into Lead
Chapter 46 The Magaziner Report
Chapter 47 The Country Turns against the Academy
Chapter 48 Wall Street and Madison Avenue Meet on Campus
Chapter 49 Lost Faith, Lost Trust
Chapter 50 A Depression? Averted, But Not Forever
Chapter 51 Losing Luster
Chapter 52 Leaving Dartmouth
Chapter 53 The Ethnicization of Learning
Chapter 54 The New Egalitarianism on Campus
Chapter 55 Teaching
Chapter 56 Scholarship
Chapter 57 Defender of the Faith
Chapter 58 The Great Tradition Dies:
Chapter 59 The Campus and the Country Part Company
Chapter 60 "A Commencement Speech You'll Never Hear" That the Whole World Heard
Chapter 61 The Dumbing Down of the Universities
Chapter 62 Reagan's Revenge
Chapter 63 Dead, White, Male and Proud of It
Chapter 64 Turning Inward
Chapter 65 Falling Behind
Chapter 66 The Consumer Is Always Right
Chapter 67 The Other Choice
Chapter 68 A Career Concludes, the Ostracism Commences
Chapter 69 Scholarship Makes No Difference Here
Chapter 70 A Time of Troubles
Chapter 71 Getting Fired - Again
Chapter 72 Restoring Reason, Renewing Rationality
Chapter 73 It's the Faculty, Stupid!
Chapter 74 Bibliography
Chapter 75 Index
Product details
| Published | 19 Feb 2004 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 252 |
| ISBN | 9781461691549 |
| Imprint | University Press of America |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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