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Knowledge matters : the public mission of the research university

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"A Columbia/SSRC Book."

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The public mission of the research university / Craig Calhoun
Great expectations, past promises, and golden ages: rethinking the "crisis" of public research universities / Gustavo E. Fischman, Sarah E. Igo, Diana Rhoten
"El central volumen de la fuerza": global hegemony in higher education and research / Simon Marginson, Imanol Ordorika
The state, the university, and society in Soviet and Russian higher education: the search for a new public mission / Mark S. Johnson, Andrey V. Kortunov
Public research universities in Latin America and their relation to economic development / Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Pablo Ruiz-Nápoles
When neoliberalism colonizes higher education in Asia: bringing the "public" back to the contemporary university / Ka Ho Mok
Challenges for higher education in Africa, Ubuntu, and democratic justice / Yusef Waghid
The idea of the public university and the national project in Africa: toward a full circle, from the 1960s to the present / N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
Rethinking what is made public in the university's public mission / John Willinsky
Public research universities: from land grant to federal grant to patent grant institutions / Diana Rhoten, Walter Powell
German universities in the new knowledge ecology: current changes in research conditions and university-industry relations / Stefan Lange, Georg Krücken
The micropolitics of knowledge in England and Europe: the Cambridge University IPRs controversy and its macropolitical lessons / Voldemar Tomusk
Playing the quality game: whose quality and whose higher education? / John Brennan, Mala Singh
The academic workplace: what we already know, what we still do not know, and what we would like to know / Christine Musselin
Cultural formations of the public university: globalization, diversity, and the state at the University of Michigan / Michael D. Kennedy.

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Knowledge matters : the public mission of the research university. ISBN 9780231521833. Published by Columbia University Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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