1st Edition

Reaffirming Higher Education

By Noam Neusner Copyright 2000
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

209 Pages
by Routledge

How should universities balance the requirements of teaching with those of scholarship? The consensus that scholarship counts first and teaching comes second has lost its hold, for in an academic world in which few publish (95 percent of publications come from 5 percent of the professors), insisting on the priority of scholarship rings hollow. The American college and university today must assess... Read more
Preface, 1. Who Should Teach in a University?, 2. What Should Universities Teach?, 3. Who Should Go to College?, 4. What is at Stake on Campus?, Epilogue: The Major Matters Most of All William Scott Green, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Neusner, Noam