Precipice or Crossroads?: Where America's Great Public Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway Through Their Second Century

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Comprehensive treatment of the challenges faced by America's public research universities, and of what those challenges may mean for the nation.

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A Note on References	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xix
Democracy, the West, and Land-Grant Colleges	p. 1
The 1890 Institutions in African American and American Life	p. 17
The Modern Public University: Its Land-Grant Heritage, Its Land-Grant Horizon by E. Gordon Gee	p. 51
Commitments: Enhancing the Public Purposes and Outcomes of Public Higher Education	p. 63
Challenges to Viability and Sustainability: Public Funding, Tuition, College Costs, and Affordability	p. 79
University-Based R&D and Economic Development: The Morrill Act and the Emergence of the American Research University	p. 119
From a Land-Grant to a World-Grant Ideal: Extending Public Higher Education Core Values to a Global Frame	p. 159
Statewide University Systems: Taking the Land-Grant Concept to Scale in the Twenty-First Century	p. 197
Creating the Future: The Promise of Public Research Universities for America	p. 221
Challenges to Equilibrium: The Place of the Arts and Humanities in Public Research Universities	p. 241
References	p. 259
List of Contributors	p. 283
Index	p. 291
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