Essays initially presented at the Princeton Conference on Higher Education, held at Princeton University in Mar. 1996.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
[The university overall] -- The university and its critics / Frank H.T. Rhodes -- On the accountability of higher education in the United States / Martin Trow -- [The presidency] -- University presidents- then and now / Harold T. Shapiro -- On the history of giants / Hanna H. Gray -- [The faculty] -- A neglected topic : professorial conduct of college and university teachers / Henry Rosovsky with Inge-Lise Ameer -- How can universities teach professional ethics? / Amy Gutmann -- Unity or fragmentation, convergence or diversity : the academic profession in comparative perspective in the era of mass higher education / Oliver Fulton -- [The planning and oversight of science] -- A time for audacity : what the past has to teach the present about science and the federal government / Daniel J. Kevles -- New policies for new times / Frank Press -- On the future of America's scientific enterprise / Maxine Singer.