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Author Casper, Gerhard, author.

Title The winds of freedom : addressing challenges to the university / Gerhard Casper.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 219 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Includes index.
Summary "As president of Stanford University, Gerhard Casper established a reputation as a tireless, forward-thinking advocate for higher education. His speeches, renowned for their intelligence, humanity, wit, and courage, confront head-on the most pressing concerns facing our nation's universities. From affirmative action and multiculturalism to free speech, politics, public service, and government regulation, Casper addresses the controversial issues currently debated on college campuses and in our highest courts. With insight and candor, each chapter explores the context of these challenges to higher education and provides Casper's stirring orations delivered in response. In addressing these vital concerns, Casper outlines the freedoms that a university must encourage and defend in the ongoing pursuit of knowledge."-- Provided by publisher.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Stanford University.
Stanford University.
Education, Higher -- Philosophy.
Education, Higher -- Philosophy.
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
Academic freedom.
Academic freedom.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Casper, Gerhard. Winds of freedom. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2014 9780300196917 (DLC) 2013022143 (OCoLC)857879337
ISBN 9780300207064 (electronic book)
0300207069 (electronic book)
9780300196917
0300196911