The future of the city of intellect : the changing American university / edited by Steven Brint. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2002. - xxvii, 353 p. ; 24 cm.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Shock wave II : an introduction to the twenty-first century / Clark Kerr -- Demographic and economic forces of change. Credential inflation and the future of universities / Randall Collins. Universities and knowledge : restructuring the city of intellect / Patricia J. Gumport. The competition for high-ability students : universities in a key marketplace / Roger L. Geiger. The new world of knowledge production in the life sciences / Walter W. Powell and Jason Owen-Smith -- Technological forces of change. Becoming digital : the challenges of weaving technology throughout higher education / Carol Tomlinson-Keasey. The audit of virtuality : universities in the attention economy / Richard A. Lanham. New business models for higher education / David J. Collis -- Continuity and change in fields of knowledge. The disciplines and the future / Andrew Abbott. The rise of the "practical arts" / Steven Brint. The political economy of curriculum-making in American universities / Sheila Slaughter -- Continuity and change in academic work and university governance. The "academic revolution" revisited / Richard Chait. University transformation : primary pathways to university autonomy and achievement / Burton R. Clark.

0804744203 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804745315 (paper : alk. paper)

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Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.
Universidades--Estados Unidos.
Educación superior--Metas y objetivos--Estados Unidos.
EDUCATION--Higher.
Universities and colleges--United States.
Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.

LA 227.4 / F996 2002

378.73