The Degradation of the Academic Dogma

Egon Friedell, Robert Nisbet

• Hardcover | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• This is one of the most important books ever published about the American university Lees meer

Student Politics in America

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• Students have periodically played an important role in campus political life as well as in societal politics. Students were active in the anti-slavery... Lees meer

Scientific Elite

• Hardcover | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. The Review's purpose, as d... Lees meer

Academic Freedom in the Age of the College

Richard Hofstadter

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• When this classic volume first appeared, academic freedom was a crucially important issue. It is equally so today. Hofstadter approaches the topic his... Lees meer

Investment in Learning

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• The value of higher education has been under attack as seldom before in American history. We are told of the overeducated American, of the case agains... Lees meer

Making the Grade

Howard S. Becker

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty a... Lees meer

Centers of Learning

Joseph Ben-David

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• The universities of Britain, France, Germany, and the United States stem from a common European academic tradition and are today among the most influe... Lees meer

Student Politics in America

• Hardcover | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• Students have periodically played an important role in campus political life as well as in societal politics Lees meer

Scientific Elite

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• Scientific Elite is about Nobel prize winners and the well-defined stratification system in twentieth-century science. It tracks the careers of all Am... Lees meer

The Higher Learning in America

Robert Maynard Hutchins

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• Perhaps the pivotal book in the reform of higher education in the United States, Robert M. Hutchins' classic is once again available, with a brilliant... Lees meer

The Academic System in American Society

Alain Touraine

• Hardcover | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• It has been my object in the present work to investigate the problems of ethics in the light of an examination of the facts of moral life. One reason ... Lees meer

The Degradation of the Academic Dogma

Robert Nisbet

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• This is one of the most important books ever published about the American university. Robert Nisbet accuses universities of having betrayed themselves... Lees meer

Making the Grade

Howard S Becker

• Hardcover | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• Based on three years of detailed anthropological observation, this account of undergraduate culture portrays students' academic relations to faculty a... Lees meer

The Rise of Universities

Charles Homer Haskins

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• At the time of its publication in 1923, Charles Homer Haskins' The Rise of Universities was considered remarkable for its erudition, succinctness, and... Lees meer

Future of the Humanities

James Hughes, Walter Kaufmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• This book locates the humanities in six general fields of study: religion and philosophy, art and music, and literature and history. It offers suggest... Lees meer

The Academic System in American Society

Alain Touraine

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• Although the period of student protests of the 1960s and 1970s has long passed, Alain Touraine argues, in this wide-ranging and vigorous essay, that t... Lees meer

Future of the Humanities

Walter Kaufmann

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• This book locates the humanities in six general fields of study: religion and philosophy, art and music, and literature and history. It offers suggest... Lees meer

The Higher Learning in America

Robert Maynard Hutchins

• Hardcover | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• Perhaps the pivotal book in the reform of higher education in the United States, Robert M Lees meer

The Ethics of Competition

Frank Knight

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• The Ethics of Competition is a book of Frank H. Knight's writings on a common theme: the problem of social control and its various implications. Knigh... Lees meer

The Academic Man

Logan Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• When it was originally published, The Academic Man was the first full-scale social science-based study on the American academic profession. The issues... Lees meer

Investment in Learning

• Hardcover | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• The value of higher education has been under attack as seldom before in American history. We are told of the overeducated American, of the case agains... Lees meer

The Organization of Academic Work

Peter M Blau

• Hardcover | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• This book originated in an analysis of government bureaucracies. Peter Blau was led to wonder whether corresponding patterns are observable in the adm... Lees meer

The Distinctive College

Burton R. Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• The factors contributing to the greatness of a first-rank liberal arts college are difficult to analyze Lees meer

Universities

Abraham Flexner

• Paperback | Engels | Foundations of Higher Education
• Reprint of the Oxford University Press edition of 1930, with a long new introduction by Clark Kerr. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Lees meer