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Clark Kerr
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America's university president extraordinaire adds a new chapter and preface to The Uses of the University, probably the most important book on the modern university ever written. This summa on higher education brings the research university into the new century.The multiversity that Clark Kerr so presciently discovered now finds itself in an age of apprehension with few certainties. Leaders of institutions of higher learning can be either hedgehogs or foxes in the new age. Kerr gives five general points of advice on what kinds of attitudes universities should adopt. He then gives a blueprint for action for foxes, suggesting that a few hedgehogs need to be around to protect university autonomy and the public weal.
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THE
IDEA
OF
A
MULTIVERSITY
The
university
started
as
a
single
community—a
community
of
masters
and
students.
It
may
even
be
said
to
have
had
a
soul
in
the
sense
of
a
central
animating
principle.
Today
the
large
American
university
is,
rather,
a
whole
series
of
communities
and
activities
held
together
by
a
common
name,
a
common
governing
board,
and
related
purposes.
This
great
transformation
is
regretted
by
some,
accepted
by
many,
gloried
in,
as
yet,
by
few.
But
it
should
be
understood
by
all.
The
university
of
today
can
perhaps
be
understood,
in
part,
by
comparing
it
with
what
it
once
was—with
the
academic
cloister
of
Cardinal
Newman,
with
the
research
organism
of
Abraham
Flexner.
Those
are
the
ideal
types
from
which
it
has
derived,
ideal
types
which
still
constitute
the
illusions
of
some
of
its
inhabitants.
The
modern
American
university,
however,
is
not
Oxford
nor
is
it
Berlin;
it
is
a
new
type
of
institution
in
the
world.
As
a
new
type
of
institution,
it
is
not
really
private
and
it
is
not
really
public;
it
is
neither
entirely
of
the
world
nor
entirely
apart
from
it.
It
is
unique.