Re-Envisioning the Public Research University
Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change
- 218 pages
- English
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Re-Envisioning the Public Research University
Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change
About this book
This volume explores the numerous and competing demands that face America's public research universities and considers how institutions and their leaders can best navigate this challenge to ensure longevity, relevance, and success on the local, national, and global stage.
Today's public research universities have the unique challenge of responding to new societal pressures and policies, while remaining true to their core educational missions and values. Highlighting the multiple roles that universities must now fulfil – as institutions of higher learning, as research bodies, as institutions with global reputations, and as organizations that serve the public – the volume asks how they can best evolve in the rapidly changing education landscape. Tackling subjects such as faculty culture, the role of technology, financial sustainability, institutional identity, diversity, and organizational development, chapters identify innovative and transformative mechanisms for acclimatizing the public research university to current educational, academic, and societal needs.
This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in higher education, educational reform and policy, and the sociology of education more broadly.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Call for Renewal and Transformation
- 1 The Multiversity Revisited: The Quest for Institutional Identity in an Era of Rapid Change
- 2 Addressing the Gathering Storm of External Forces
- 3 The Nature of Innovation and Change at Public Research Universities
- 4 The Impact of Technology: Cause and Consequence
- 5 Public Research Universities as Engines for Economic Development and Innovation
- 6 The Iron Triangle Revisited: Re-Envisioning Public Research University Financing
- 7 Knowledge Without Boundaries Revisited Beyond the Walls of Academia: The Role of Engagement
- 8 Interdisciplinarity and the American Public Research University
- 9 Public Research Universities in the Metro Nation
- 10 Diversity: An Investment in Democracy and Academic Excellence
- 11 Competition and Ranking: A Comparative and International Perspective
- 12 Epilogue: Creating a New Kind of Public Research University
- Index