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Summary
Summary
Forty years after Clark Kerr coined the term multiversity, the American research university has continued to evolve into a complex force for social and economic good. This volume provides a unique opportunity to explore the current state of the research university system. Charles M. Vest, one of the leading advocates for autonomy for American higher education, offers a multifaceted view of the university at the beginning of a new century. With a complex mission and funding structure, the university finds its international openness challenged by new security concerns and its ability to contribute to worldwide opportunity through sharing and collaboration dramatically expanded by the Internet. In particular, Vest addresses the need to nurture broad access to our universities and stay true to the fundamental mission of creating opportunity.
Author Notes
Charles M. Vest is President Emeritus and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is author of Pursuing the Endless Frontier: Essays on MIT and the Role of Research Universities and Holographic Interferometry.
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Vest was trained as an engineer and became an engineering professor. He rose through the ranks to become president of MIT, and held this position from 1990 to 2004. Here he has written an insightful, penetrating analysis of the changing status and role of research universities. This work addresses many important topics: the roles and influences of the public sector in higher education; the roles and influences of the private sector in higher education; education, research, and scholarly communication in an age of globalization and terrorism; higher education and scholarship in the age of the Internet. The insights, descriptions, analyses, and expectations of American research universities are well described and discussed. Vest's conclusions provide a conceptual frame for understanding not only the future of universities, but how the lives of faculty and students will be affected. This volume should be read by all who are concerned about the future of higher education not only in the US, but worldwide. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels. J. F. Biter formerly, St. Bonaventure University
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
| Chapter 1 Federal, State, and Local Governments |
| Chapter 2 Industry, Philanthropy, and Universities: The Roles and Influences of the Private Sector in Higher Education |
| Chapter 3 Openness of Education, Research, and Scholarly Communication in an Age of Globalization and Terrorism |
| Chapter 4 The Emerging Global Meta-University: Higher Education and Scholarship in the Age of the Internet |
| Notes |
| Index |
