Knowledge Matters: The Public Mission of the Research University

Edited by Diana Rhoten and Craig Calhoun

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February, 2011
Cloth, 560 pages, 4 line drawings, 19 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-15114-6
$80.00 / £55.00

List of Illustrations

Preface

Diana Rhoten and Craig Calhoun

1. The Public Mission of the Research University

Craig Calhoun

2. Great Expectations, Past Promises, and Golden Ages: Rethinking the “Crisis” of Public Research Universities

Gustavo E. Fischman, Sarah E. Igo, and Diana R. Rhoten

3. “El central volumen de la fuerza”: Global Hegemony in Higher Education and Research

Simon Marginson and Imanol Ordorika

4. The State, the University, and Society in Soviet and Russian Higher Education: The Search for a New Public Mission

Mark S. Johnson and Andrey V. Kortunov

5. Public Research Universities in Latin America and Their Relation to Economic Development

Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Pablo Ruiz-Nápoles

6. When Neoliberalism Colonizes Higher Education in Asia: Bringing the “Public” Back to the Contemporary University

Ka Ho Mok

7. Challenges for Higher Education in Africa, Ubuntu, and Democratic Justice

Yusef Waghid

8. The Idea of the Public University and the National Project in Africa: Toward a Full Circle, from the 1960s to the Present

N’Dri T. Assié-Lumumba and Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo

9. Rethinking What Is Made Public in the University’s Public Mission

John Willinsky

10. Public Research Universities: From Land Grant to Federal Grant to Patent Grant Institutions

Diana Rhoten and Walter Powell

11. German Universities in the New Knowledge Ecology: Current Changes in Research Conditions and University-Industry Relations

Stefan Lange and Georg Krücken

12. The Micropolitics of Knowledge in England and Europe: The Cambridge University IPRs Controversy and Its Macropolitical Lessons

Voldemar Tomusk

13. Playing the Quality Game: Whose Quality and Whose Higher Education?

John Brennan and Mala Singh

14. The Academic Workplace: What We Already Know, What We Still Do Not Know, and What We Would Like to Know

Christine Musselin

15. Cultural Formations of the Public University: Globalization, Diversity, and the State at the University of Michigan

Michael D. Kennedy

List of Contributors

Index

Related Subjects

• Sociology

Series

• A Columbia / SSRC Book

About the Author

Diana Rhoten is the founder and director of the Knowledge Institutions program and the Digital Media and Learning project at the Social Science Research Council. She has published in a range of academic journals and advises cultural, scientific, and educational institutions on issues of organizational design, creative collaboration, and adaptive change.

Craig Calhoun is president of the Social Science Research Council and University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University. He has served in a variety of academic leadership positions, including as a dean, and has conducted research in many international settings. His most recent book is an edited collection, Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science.

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