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In Marginal Worth, Lionel S. Lewis examines the contemporary academic labor market to explain why teachingwhich is almost universally acknowledged both off and on campus to be at the center of the American educational experience - is not at the center of the academic labor market, and why it is only modestly rewarded.
The evidence collected and analyzed by Lewis suggests that this is the case because teaching is not a particularly productive activity,...
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With this book, Roger L. Geiger completes a two-volume study of American research universities in the twentieth century. The first volume, To Advance Knowledge, focused on those few institutions that first embodied academic research and their interaction with private supporters. This book describes how the federal government relied on university scientists during World War II and how the resulting relationship set the pattern for the postwar mushrooming...
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"Multiversities are sprawling conglomerates that provide liberal undergraduate, graduate, and professional education. As wellsprings of innovation and ideas, these institutions represent the core of society's research enterprise. This book contends that, in the contemporary world, multiversities need to be conceptualized in a new way, that is, not just as places of teaching and research, but as fundamental institutions of democracy."--Jacket.
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Since the 1950s, the federal government has relied on the peer review system for funding high-quality academic science. Yet, despite the success of American science, peer review is under attack for being a biased "good old boy" network that helps rich research universities get richer. As a remedy for these biases, university presidents and members of Congress have turned to the earmarking of science projects and facilities in the federal budget. Critics...
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