By Clark Kerr
America's college president extraordinaire provides a brand new bankruptcy and preface to The makes use of of the University, essentially the most vital booklet at the glossy college ever written. This summa on better schooling brings the examine college into the recent century.
The multiversity that Clark Kerr so presciently stumbled on now unearths itself in an age of apprehension with few certainties. Leaders of associations of upper studying will be both hedgehogs or foxes within the new age. Kerr offers 5 common issues of recommendation on what types of attitudes universities may still undertake. He then provides a blueprint for motion for foxes, suggesting few hedgehogs must be round to guard collage autonomy and the general public weal.
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