Reawakening the Public Research University

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Reawakening the Public Research University is written by Renée Beville Flower and published by University of California eScholarship. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0615970133 (ISBN 10) and 9780615970134 (ISBN 13).

A core institution in the human endeavor—the public research university—is in transition. As U.S. public universities adapt to a multi-decadal decline in public funding, they risk losing their essential character as a generator, evaluator, and archivist of ideas and as a wellspring of tomorrow’s intellectual, economic, and political leaders. This book explores the core interdependent and coevolving structures of the research university: its physical domain (buildings, libraries, classrooms), administration (governance and funding), and intellectual structures (curricula and degree programs). It searches the U.S. history of the public research university to identify its essential qualities, and generates recommendations that identify the crucial roles of university administration, state government and federal government.