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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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Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a "wonderful" husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks...
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"With Science for Sale, acclaimed journalist Daniel S. Greenberg reveals that campus capitalism is more complicated - and less profitable - than media reports would suggest. While universities seek out corporate funding, news stories rarely note that those industry dollars are dwarfed by government support and other funds. Also, while many universities have set up technology-transfer offices to pursue profits through patents, many of those offices...
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"Americans and people throughout the world have become increasingly dependent on America's great research universities. Yet few of us truly understand to what we owe this extraordinary excellence or what we must do to keep it." "From the development of technologies like the laser, the global positioning system, the MRI, radar, and even Viagra, to predicting weather patterns, American research universities are one of our most vital sources of economic...
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Science and the University investigates the tremendous changes that have taken place in university research over the past several decades, gauging the current state of research in higher education and examining issues and challenges crucial to its future. Scientific research increasingly dominates the aims and agendas of many American universities, and this proliferation--and changes in the way research is conducted--has given rise to important questions...
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"In this book, Dorothy Warner offers eight disciplinary methods, each identifying a series of information literacy objectives developed in accordance with Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives. A curriculum map embedded within each module: lists the sequence of courses required for the disciplinary major and the level at which the course is taught (sophomore, junior, etc.); notes whether information literacy instruction is currently taught by the...
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