Who's in Charge of America's Research Universities?: A Blueprint for Reform

Goes to the heart of the challenges facing the nation's research universities.

This book explores the American research university, and, in a larger sense, addresses knowledge creation in our society, since research universities are the primary means for the production and dissemination of basic knowledge in the public interest. Universities not only play a major role in technological, economic, and cultural development, but also prepare much of the country's leadership, particularly in the ...