文档介绍：Abelard to Apple
Abelard to Apple
The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
Richard A. DeMillo
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
© 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
DeMillo, Richard A.
Abelard to Apple: the fate of American colleges and universities / Richard A.
DeMillo.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978–0- 262–01580–6 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. Universities and colleges—
United States. 2. Education, Higher—Aims and objectives—United States. 3.
Educational change—United States. I. Title.
2011
—dc22
2010049657
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Some other institutions and presidents will confront their problems, take a careful
look, and then turn tail and run.
—Clark Kerr
Great as was the infl uence exerted by Abelard on the minds of his contemporaries
and the course of medieval thought, he has been little known in modern time, but
for his connection with Heloise.
—e Croom Robertson
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Prologue xv
I Great Visions to Lure Them On 1
1 Are You Teaching This Summer? 3
2 A World of Subjective Judgments 13
3 The Smartest Kid in Class 23
4 The Twenty- First Century 33
II An Abundance of Choices 39
5 It Takes a Lot to Get Us Excited 41
6 puter in the Cathedral 65
7 Do No Harm 81
8 The Factory 93
9 Disruption 105
III A Better Means of Expressing Their Goals 123
10 The Value of a University