Author: William McNeill
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: university, chicago, press, publications, centennial, hutchins, memoir
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1991-10-08
List price: $48.00
ISBN-10: 0226561704
ISBN-13: 9780226561707

The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social and economic climate throughout the world. And Hutchins himself opened an era of tumultuous reform and debate within the University. In the midst of the changes Hutchins started and the intense feelings they stirred, William H. McNeill arrived at the University to pursue his education. In Hutchins’ University he tells what it was like to come of age as a undergraduate in those heady times. Hutchins’ scathing opp

Author: Willem Otterspeer
Publisher: Amsterdam University Pre
Keywords: university, press, leiden, amsterdam, academic, yesterday, bastion, liberty
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2009-02-15
List price: $69.50
ISBN-10: 9087280300
ISBN-13: 9789087280307

Leiden University was founded as an institution that would embody a particular set of academic ethics that sought to improve society through the acquisition of knowledge. In this volume, author Willem Otterspeer draws on the idea of Leiden as a “bastion of liberty” and proposes that concepts such as “equilibrium” and “scale” are key to understanding the university as an institution, ultimately showing how universities are a form of social capital, one of Western society’s answers to the dilemma of collective action, and an instrument for preserving and restoring continuity in the

Author: Marcus Peter Ford
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Keywords: university, postmodern, constructive, modern
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2002-11-30
List price: $86.95
ISBN-10: 0897897943
ISBN-13: 9780897897945

We are in the midst of an unprecedented, human-caused, environmental crisis. This study asks, "Given the present state of the world, what should be the primary objective of higher education?" The author contends that the modern university should help to make the world a better place by enabling human beings to live more meaningful and satisfying lives and by helping to promote social justice and environmental sustainability.

Author: Pontifical Gregorian University
Publisher: Loyola Press
Keywords: university, catholic, role, culture, faith
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 1991-01
List price: $13.50
ISBN-10: 8876526048
ISBN-13: 9788876526046

Authors:University of Chicago, Insead, University of Michi
Publisher: FT Pre
Keywords: strategy, mastering
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-10-07
List price: $49.99
ISBN-10: 0273649302
ISBN-13: 9780273649304

(Prentice Hall) The latest thinking from international business schools on strategy, including mergers and acquisitions, risk, technology and alliances. Softcover.

Authors:J. G. Wissema, Jan Verloop,
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: university, managing, transition, generation, third, towards
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2009-03
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 1848442165
ISBN-13: 9781848442160

`In Central and Eastern Europe, universities are struggling to adapt to the new economic and institutional situations. The concept of the Third Generation University is powerful in giving direction. In addition, the book offers much practical advice, taken from the author’s experience as a consultant to universities.’ - Marjan Bojadzhiev, University American College Skopje, Macedonia `Although the quality of university management makes or breaks the effectiveness and efficiency of a university, most university managers come unprepared to the job while only few books and cours

Author: Solomon
Publisher: Thomson
Keywords: university, indianapolis, purdue, biology, indiana
Published: 2008
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0495443239
ISBN-13: 9780495443230