Troubled Times for American Higher Education: The 1990s and Beyond
- ISBN-10
- 0791417050
- ISBN-13
- 9780791417058
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 189
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994-01-01
- Publisher
- SUNY Press
- Authors
- Clark Kerr, President Emeritus and Former Chancellor and Professor Emeritus Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade
Description
Also included is a thought-provoking section on the dominant connection between higher education and the economy that evaluates how well the test of service to the labor market has been met and counters the charge that our educational system is to blame for the nation's decline in economic productivity and lack of international competitiveness.
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