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A University for the 21st Century

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From the former president of one of The us’s leading universities comes a comprehensive analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing higher education in The us as we enter the twenty-first century. In A University for the Twenty-first Century, James J. Duderstadt discusses the array of powerful economic, social, and technological forces that are driving the rapid and profound change in American social institutions and universities in particular.
Change has all the time characterized the university as it has sought to preserve and propagate the intellectual achievements, the cultures, and the values of our civilization. On the other hand, the capacity of the university to change, through a process characterized by reflection, reaction, and consensus, simply is probably not sufficient to allow the university to regulate its own destiny. Not only will social and technical change be a challenge to the American university, Duderstadt says, it’ll be the watchword for the years ahead. And with change will come unprecedented opportunities for those universities with the vision, the wisdom, and the courage to lead in the twenty-first century. The true question raised by this book isn’t whether higher education will likely be transformed, but moderately how . . . and by whom.
James J. Duderstadt is President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering, University of Michigan.

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