Searching for Utopia universities and their histories / Hanna Holborn Gray.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2012.; ©2012Description: 1 online resource (viii, 122 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520951709
- 0520951700
- Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
- Colleges and universities -- United States
- Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
- Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
- School management and organization
- Education
- Universities and colleges -- United States
- Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
- School management and organization
- LA227.4
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| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | LA227.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn768081842 |
In Searching for Utopia, Hanna Holborn Gray reflects on the nature of the university from the perspective of today's research institutions. In particular, she examines the ideas of former University of California president Clark Kerr as expressed in The Uses of the University, written during the tumultuous 1960s. She contrasts Kerr's vision of the research-driven "multiveristy" with the traditional liberal educational philosophy espoused by Kerr's contemporary, former University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins. Gray's insightful analysis shows that both Kerr, widely considered a ... .
Includes bibliographical references.
The uses of the university revisited -- The university idea and liberal learning -- Uses (and misuses) of the university today.
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