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Designing the New American University (Paperback)
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Designing the New American University (Paperback)
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A radical blueprint for reinventing American higher education.
America's research universities consistently dominate global
rankings but may be entrenched in a model that no longer
accomplishes their purposes. With their multiple roles of
discovery, teaching, and public service, these institutions
represent the gold standard in American higher education, but their
evolution since the nineteenth century has been only incremental.
The need for a new and complementary model that offers broader
accessibility to an academic platform underpinned by knowledge
production is critical to our well-being and economic
competitiveness. Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State
University and an outspoken advocate for reinventing the public
research university, conceived the New American University model
when he moved from Columbia University to Arizona State in 2002.
Following a comprehensive reconceptualization spanning more than a
decade, ASU has emerged as an international academic and research
powerhouse that serves as the foundational prototype for the new
model. Crow has led the transformation of ASU into an egalitarian
institution committed to academic excellence, inclusiveness to a
broad demographic, and maximum societal impact. In Designing the
New American University, Crow and coauthor William B. Dabars-a
historian whose research focus is the American research
university-examine the emergence of this set of institutions and
the imperative for the new model, the tenets of which may be
adapted by colleges and universities, both public and private.
Through institutional innovation, say Crow and Dabars, universities
are apt to realize unique and differentiated identities, which
maximize their potential to generate the ideas, products, and
processes that impact quality of life, standard of living, and
national economic competitiveness. Designing the New American
University will ignite a national discussion about the future
evolution of the American research university.
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