Heinz-Dieter Meyer

The Design of the University

German, American, and "World Class"

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The American university is a genuine institutional design innovation, the first to harness the power of markets, government and scholarly love for distinction without being controlled by any of them. The major tenets of the American research university - teaching and research, doctoral education, the allure of a 'national university' - helped it supersede international competitors, particularly Germany, as the leading powerhouse of science and scholarship. By closely tracking the similarities and differences of American higher education and its German model, this volume identifies the practices and choices that produced the gold standard for today's world class higher education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781138802506
• ISBN-10: 1138802506
• Artikelnr.: 42740005

Autorenporträt

Heinz-Dieter Meyer is Associate Professor of Organization and Education at the State University of New York - Albany, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Glimpses of a New Design 1. Introduction: The "World Class"
Discourse and the Perspective of Institutional Design 2. Ticknor in
Göttingen: The Discovery of a New Institution 3. Adam Smith and "The Very
Absurd Constitution of the English Universitys" 4. Humboldt's Design
Revolution: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back Part 2: Institutional
Learning: Events, Actors, and Beliefs 5. The Migration of an
Institution: From Boston to Berlin and Back 6. Contested Designs: Scholars
and Patricians 7. Protestants and Philanthropists 8. Centralizers and
Localizers 9. Purity or Utility? The Business School in the Academy 10.
Fortuitous Idiosyncrasies: How Humboldt Flourished in America Part 3:
Achieving Self-Government: Six American Design Shifts 11. Collegial
Self-Government 12. Executive Presidents 13. Infrastructure of Independence
14. Hierarchies and Heterarchies 15. From State to Civil Society 16. Shared
Governance17. Systemic Design Properties: Autonomy as Complex
Self-Organization Part 4: Conclusion 18. Self-Government as Fragile
Equilibrium Afterword: Towards "World Class" Managerialism?