The Third Imperative [microform] / Robert Zemsky, Ed
- Bib ID:
- 5670856
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Inst. for Research on Higher Education
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED442424
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1999
- 13 p.
- Summary:
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This essay reports on a roundtable of higher education leaders, association heads, government officials, and public policy experts that examined the changes in policymakers' attitudes toward federally sponsored research. Since World War II national science policy has made universities the principal locus of basic research in the United States. But an increasing sense of disjunction between the values of the academy and the dispositions of the federal government reflects changes in a society increasingly skeptical of the claims to special treatment often made by colleges and universities. The intensified pace of the political process has led the federal government to allow markets to replace policy commitments intended to sustain traditional institutions' academic values and processes. It matters less to Washington whether a student spends a Pell Grant attending a for-profit trade school or a traditional institution. This essay argues that for colleges and universities to succeed, they must become mission centered, market smart, and politically savvy: mission centered to find and adhere to central academic values and missions; market smart to promote coherence and cohesion; and politically savvy to understand the changed nature of the political process in which only a limited number of goals can be achieved. (RH)
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- Availability: Institute for Research on Higher Education, 4200 Pine Street, 5A, Philadelphia, PA 19104-4090; Tel: 800-437-9799 (toll free); e-mail: pp-requests@irhe.upenn.edu; Web site: http//www.irhe.upenn.edu/pp.
- Sponsoring Agency: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Miami, FL.
- Sponsoring Agency: National Center for Postsecondary Improvement, Stanford, CA.
- Sponsoring Agency: Association of American Universities, Washington, DC.
- Sponsoring Agency: American Council on Education, Washington, DC. Higher Education Panel.
- Contract Number: R309A60001.
- Policy Perspectives, v9 n1 Nov 1999.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Educational Legislation
- Educational Research
- Federal Aid
- Federal Programs
- Government Role
- Government School Relationship
- Higher Education
- Institutional Advancement
- Institutional Autonomy
- Institutional Mission
- Lobbying
- Marketing
- Peer Evaluation
- Politics of Education
- Public Policy
- Public Relations
- Public Support
- Research
- Research Universities
- Other authors/contributors:
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- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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