03143nam a2200409Ii 4500 31248 BD-DhAAL 20160822111656.0 160822s2016 nyua b 001 0 eng d 1610392655 9781610392655 9781610392662 9781610392655 (HC) 9781610392662 (EB) YDXCP eng YDXCP BTCTA BDX OCLCQ IAD SAP NYP OCLCO DAD ON8 OCLCO IAD BD-DhAAL LA227.4 .C643 2016 378.73 23 Cole, Jonathan R., author. 20360 Toward a more perfect university / Jonathan R. Cole. First edition. New York : PublicAffairs, c2016 xiv, 409 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-389) and index. Getting In -- Thoughts on Undergraduate Education and Its Future -- A House Built on a Firm Foundation -- The Contours of the University -- The Affordability and Value of Higher Education: Fact and Fiction -- An Accessible, High-Quality Education for All -- Creating New Academic Leagues and Knowledge Communities -- Reimagining the University Campus -- The Central Dogma of a Great University -- Reconstructing the University-Government Compact -- Structural Change. "A renowned academic leader identifies the ways America's great universities should evolve in the decades ahead to maintain their global preeminence and enhance their intellectual stature and social mission as higher education confronts the twenty-first-century developments in technology, humanities, culture, and economics."--Dust jacket. "Jonathan R. Cole, former provost and current University Professor at Columbia University, addresses some of the biggest challenges facing the modern American university: developing effective admission policies; creating the most meaningful examinations; dealing with rising costs; making undergraduate education central to the university's mission; exploring the role of the humanities; facilitating new discoveries and innovation; determining the place for professional schools; developing the research campuses of the future; assessing the role of sports; designing leadership and governance; and combating intellectual and legal threats to academic freedom."--Publisher description. MNS 31248, 31249 Universities and colleges United States. 20361 Universities and colleges United States Administration. 20362 Education, Higher United States. 20363 Education, Higher Curricula United States. 20364 AUTH ddc BK 37762 37762 0 0 ddc 0 378_730000000000000_COL 0 59550 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2016-08-22 Trim Education 2644.00 2 10 378.73 COL 3010031248 2023-02-01 2022-11-30 1 2644.00 2016-08-02 BK 0 0 ddc 0 378_730000000000000_COL 0 59551 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2016-08-22 Trim Education 2644.00 0 378.73 COL 3010031249 2016-08-21 2644.00 2016-08-02 BK