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The Design of the University - German, American, and "World Class" (Hardcover)
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The Design of the University - German, American, and "World Class" (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education
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What is the reason for the American university's global
preeminence? How did the American university succeed where the
development of the German university, from which it took so much,
stalled? In this closely-argued book, Meyer suggests that the key
to the American university's success is its institutional design of
self-government. Where other university systems are dependent on
the patronage of state, church, or market, the American university
is the first to achieve true autonomy, which it attained through an
intricate system of engagements with societal actors and
institutions that simultaneously act as amplifiers of its impact
and as checks on the university's ever-present corrosive
tendencies. Built on a searching analysis of the design thinking of
Wilhelm von Humboldt and Adam Smith and closely tracing the
learning process by which Americans adapted the German model, The
Design of the University dismisses efforts to copy superficial
features of the American university in order to achieve world-class
rank. Calling attention to the design details of the university and
the particulars of its institutional environment, this volume
identifies the practices and choices that produced the gold
standard for today's world class higher education.
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