Higher Learning in America, 1980-2000

"The next decade promises to be a challenging one for colleges and universities. This book explains why... The essays provide an informative historical guide of the past decade while also looking into the future of higher education."-- Christian Science Monitor.

Preface

xi

Arthur Levine

Introduction

xvii

Eric Ashby

PART I A Dynamic Environment

Government and Higher Education

3

(17)

Patrick M. Callan

The Economy and Higher Education

20

(19)

Margaret Gordon

PART II Institutions in Transition

Federalism in American Higher Education

39

(28)

Martin Trow

Research Universities in a New Era: From the 1980s to the 1990s

67

(19)

Roger L. Geiger

Liberal Arts Colleges: What Price Survival?

86

(14)

David W. Breneman

Community Colleges: Making Winners Out of Ordinary People

100

(14)

Leslie Koltai

California: A Multisegment System

114

(17)

Neil J. Smelser

Higher Education Coordination: Australia and the United States

131

(18)

Lyman A. Glenny

The Return to Europe: Issues in Post-Communist Higher Education

149

(14)

Ladislav Cerych

PART III Changing Constituencies

Faculty: Differentiation and Dispersion

163

(16)

Burton R. Clark

The President: A Precarious Perch

179

(24)

Judith Block McLaughlin

David Riesman

Students: Interests, Culture, and Activism

203

(19)

Philip G. Altbach

Governing Boards

222

(21)

Joseph F. Kauffman

PART IV Evolving Curriculum and Disciplines

New Dimensions for General Education

243

(16)

Virginia Smith

The Humanities in the 1990s

259

(14)

Alberta Arthurs

Hearts, Brains, and Education: A New Alliance for Science Curriculum

273

(14)

Marian Cleeves Diamond

PART V Critical Issues

Improving the Quality of Instruction

287

(22)

K. Patricia Cross

Behind the Open Door: Disadvantaged Students

309

(13)

Flora Mancuso Edwards

Campus Climate in the 1980s and 1990s: Decades of Apathy and Renewal

322

(11)

Ernest L. Boyer

Diversity on Campus

333

(11)

Arthur Levine

Standardized Testing in a National Context

344

(17)

Donald M. Stewart

Afterword: A Personal Note on Clark Kerr

361

(4)

James A. Perkins

Contributors

365

(2)

Name Index

367

(6)

Subject Index

373

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Higher Learning in America, 1980-2000

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