ABSTRACT

The Academy in Crisis is a provocative contribution to an important debate....The costs of goverment support for American universities are not negligible. They include stress on some of the core values of universities and of science-vaules like openness, collaboration, and collegiality-and pressure, too, on other central institutional responsibilities, such as the education of undergradutes. Robert M. Rosenzweig, former president, Association of American Universities.

chapter 101|13 pages

Introduction

American Higher Education: State of the Art or Art of the State?

part 2|90 pages

The Political Economy of Higher Learning

part 3|87 pages

The Political Economy of Scientific Research