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Author O'Brien, Dennis, 1931-

Title All the essential half-truths about higher education / George Dennis O'Brien.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1998.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  378.73 Ob6a    ---  Available
Description xxi, 243 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-247) and index.
Contents Anyone for higher education? -- The faculty is the university -- Tenure is a necessary condition of academic freedom -- Universities are neutral on moral value/universities teach moral value -- The liberal arts curriculum aims at distribution/diversity -- Teaching is the primary task of higher education -- The problem with higher education is the administration -- Low-cost public education benefits the least advantaged -- The university is the axial institution of modern society -- Synthetic morality -- Ultimate synthesis : money, mission, and management.
Subject Education, Higher.
Universities and colleges.
ISBN 0226616541 (alk. paper)

 
    
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