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Russia and Germany: Century of Conflict

Russia and Germany: Century of Conflict

Laqueur, Walter

Hardcover

EconomicsGerman HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1138532177
ISBN13: 9781138532175
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 29 2018
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.51
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book covers well the issues and problems of the U.S. academic profession in the second half of the twentieth century. -- Contemporary ScienceThe tale of the American academic profession-that large company of men and women, unprecedented in its size and diversity-needs to be written. A large historical literature on America's colleges and universities exists, but much of it is unashamedly hagiographic. On the other hand, more critical works see American universities as being in dire need of massive reform. This charge is not sustained by the contributors to The American Academic Profession, who hope to shatter the code of silence that passes for discretion, by focusing on the forces that have conspired to create the American academic profession.Graubard includes contributions from important scholars around the world: How the Academic Profession is Changing by Arthur Levine; Small Worlds, Different Worlds: The Uniqueness and Troubles of American Academic Professions by Burton R. Clark; The Elusive Academic Profession: Complexity and Change by Francis Oakley; Uncertainties in the Changing Academic Profession by Walter E. Massey; Stewards of Opportunity: America's Public Community Colleges by Patrick M. Callan; Public Universities as Academic Workplaces by Patricia J. Gumport; Survival of the Fittest? Postgraduate Education and the Professoriate at the Fin de Sibcle by R. M. Douglas; Reflections on the Culture Wars by Eugene Goodheart; A Blow Is Like an Instrument by Charles Bernstein; The Science Wars and the Future of the American Academic Profession by Jay A. Labinger; The Scientist as Academic by Cheryl B. Leggon; The 'Place' of Knowledge in the American Academic Profession by Sheldon Rothblatt; Border Crossings: Organizational Boundaries and Challenges to the American Professoriate by Theodore R. Mitchell; The Development of Information Technology in American Higher Education by Martin Trow; and An Inte

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