Knowledge matters : the public mission of the research university
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Knowledge matters : the public mission of the research university
(A Columbia/SSRC book)
Columbia University Press, c2011
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Higher education can be a vital public good, providing opportunities for students, informed citizens for democracy, and knowledge to improve the human condition. Yet public investment in universities is widely being cut, often because public purposes are neglected while private benefits dominate. In this collection, international scholars confront the realities of higher education and the future of its public and private agenda. Their perspectives illuminate the trajectory of education in the twenty-first century and the continuing importance of the university's public mission. Reporting from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and North America, these scholars look at the different ways universities struggle to serve public and private agendas. Contributors examine the implications of changes in funding sources as well as amounts, different administrative and policy decisions, and the significance of various approaches to assessment and evaluation.
They ask whether wider student access has in fact resulted in social mobility, whether more scientific research can be treated as an open-access resource, how changes in academic publishing change access to knowledge, and whether universities get full value from research sold to private corporations. At the same time, these chapters capture the confusion in the university sector over explaining academic work to a broader public and prioritizing its multiple purposes. Authors examine these practical challenges and the implications of different approaches in different contexts.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Preface Diana Rhoten and Craig Calhoun 1. The Public Mission of the Research University, by Craig Calhoun 2. Great Expectations, Past Promises, and Golden Ages: Rethinking the "Crisis" of Public Research Universities, by Gustavo E. Fischman, Sarah E. Igo, and Diana R. Rhoten 3. "El central volumen de la fuerza": Global Hegemony in Higher Education and Research, by Simon Marginson and Imanol Ordorika 4. The State, the University, and Society in Soviet and Russian Higher Education: The Search for a New Public Mission, by Mark S. Johnson and Andrey V. Kortunov 5. Public Research Universities in Latin America and Their Relation to Economic Development, by Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Pablo Ruiz-Napoles 6. When Neoliberalism Colonizes Higher Education in Asia: Bringing the "Public" Back to the Contemporary University, by Ka Ho Mok 7. Challenges for Higher Education in Africa, Ubuntu, and Democratic Justice, by Yusef Waghid 8. The Idea of the Public University and the National Project in Africa: Toward a Full Circle, from the 1960s to the Present, by N'Dri T. Assie-Lumumba and Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo 9. Rethinking What Is Made Public in the University's Public Mission, by John Willinsky 10. Public Research Universities: From Land Grant to Federal Grant to Patent Grant Institutions, by Diana Rhoten and Walter Powell 11. German Universities in the New Knowledge Ecology: Current Changes in Research Conditions and University-Industry Relations, by Stefan Lange and Georg Krucken 12. The Micropolitics of Knowledge in England and Europe: The Cambridge University IPRs Controversy and Its Macropolitical Lessons, by Voldemar Tomusk 13. Playing the Quality Game: Whose Quality and Whose Higher Education?, by John Brennan and Mala Singh 14. The Academic Workplace: What We Already Know, What We Still Do Not Know, and What We Would Like to Know, by Christine Musselin 15. Cultural Formations of the Public University: Globalization, Diversity, and the State at the University of Michigan, by Michael D. Kennedy List of Contributors Index
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