Higher learning in America, 1980-2000 / edited by Arthur Levine.

Other author Levine, Arthur.
Format Book
Publication InfoBaltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1993.
Descriptionxxiii, 383 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Government and higher education / Patrick M. Callan -- The economy and higher education / Margaret Gordon -- Federalism in American higher education / Martin Trow -- Research universities in a new era : from the 1980s to the 1990s / Roger L. Geiger -- Liberal arts colleges : what price survival? / David W. Breneman -- Community colleges : making winners out of ordinary people / Leslie Koltai -- California : a multisegment system / Neil J. Smelser -- Higher education coordination : Australia and the United States / Lyman A. Glenny -- The return to Europe : issues in post-communist higher education / Ladislav Cerych --
Contents Faculty : differentiation and dispersion / Burton R. Clark -- The president : a precarious perch / Judith Block McLaughlin and David Riesman -- Students : interests, culture, and activism / Philip G. Altbach -- Governing boards / Joseph F. Kauffman -- New dimensions for general education / Virginia Smith -- The humanities in the 1990s / Alberta Arthurs -- Hearts, brains, and education : a new alliance for science curriculum / Marian Cleeves Diamond -- Improving the quality of instruction / K. Patricia Cross -- Behind the open door : disadvantaged students / Flora Mancuso Edwards -- Campus climate in the 1980s and 1990s : decades of apathy and renewal / Ernest L. Boyer -- Diversity on campus / Arthur Levine -- Standardized testing in a national context / Donald M. Stewart -- Afterword : a personal note on Clark Kerr / James A. Perkins.
Local noteLittle-330147--305131038754/
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 92019746
ISBN0801844576