Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century

by Jay Gabler and David John Frank

Book Overview

Current conversations on the state of academia contain a broad sense of crisis over changes in the body of university knowledge--the decline of literature, the unbridling of ethnic studies, the growth of various applied programs, and so on. Much of the concern revolves around a perceived deterioration of the academic core in which, the thinking goes, the university's teaching and research priorities are increasingly compromised by external financial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080475375X
• ISBN13: 9780804753753
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.0"