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The Design of the University: German, American, and "World Class"

The Design of the University: German, American, and "World Class"

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Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education, Book 26

General Education

ISBN10: 1138802506
ISBN13: 9781138802506
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 13 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

What is the reason for the American university's global preeminence? How did the American university succeed where the development of the German university, from which it took so much, stalled? In this closely-argued book, Meyer suggests that the key to the American university's success is its institutional design of self-government. Where other university systems are dependent on the patronage of state, church, or market, the American university is the first to achieve true autonomy, which it attained through an intricate system of engagements with societal actors and institutions that simultaneously act as amplifiers of its impact and as checks on the university's ever-present corrosive tendencies.

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