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Dynamics of the contemporary university : growth, accretion, and conflict / Neil J. Smelser.

By: Smelser, Neil J.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society: Publisher: Berkely : University of California Press, [2013]Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-131) and index.Description: x, 139 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520275812 (hardback); 0520275810 (hardback).Subject(s): Universities and colleges -- United States | Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration | Educational change -- United StatesDDC classification: 378.73 Other classification: HIS036000
Contents:
1. Dynamics of American Universities -- 2. The Dynamics Ramify: Academic Politics, Conflict, and Inequality -- 3. Contemporary Trends: Diagnoses and Conditional Predictions.
Summary: The 2012 Clark Kerr Lectures, delivered at the University of California, in which he contends that institutions of higher education add functions, structures, and constituencies as they grow, but seldom shed them, yielding increasingly complex structures. The lectures include (a) the essence of complexity if the academic setting; (b) the solidification of academic disciplines and departments; (c) changes in faculty roles and the academic community; (d) the growth of political constituencies; (e) academic administration and governance; and (f) academic stratification by prestige, and finally analyzes a number of contemporary trends and problems.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-131) and index.

1. Dynamics of American Universities -- 2. The Dynamics Ramify: Academic Politics, Conflict, and Inequality -- 3. Contemporary Trends: Diagnoses and Conditional Predictions.

The 2012 Clark Kerr Lectures, delivered at the University of California, in which he contends that institutions of higher education add functions, structures, and constituencies as they grow, but seldom shed them, yielding increasingly complex structures. The lectures include (a) the essence of complexity if the academic setting; (b) the solidification of academic disciplines and departments; (c) changes in faculty roles and the academic community; (d) the growth of political constituencies; (e) academic administration and governance; and (f) academic stratification by prestige, and finally analyzes a number of contemporary trends and problems.

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