Daedalus articles from September 1997

Daedalus archives from September 1997

How the academic profession is changing.
September 22, 1997... In the years ahead, the academic profession can be expected to change dramatically. Five forces are propelling the change: 1) the changing attitudes and demands of higher education's patrons; 2) the changing characteristics of college students;...

Stewards of opportunity: America's public community colleges.
September 22, 1997... America's public community colleges enroll almost half of all undergraduates in higher education's public sector.(1) Universally perceived as the first way station on the road to social mobility, they are at the leading edge of educational...

Survival of the fittest? Postgraduate education and the professoriate at the Fin de Siecle.
September 22, 1997... Late in 1989, as a newly matriculated student in the Ph.D. program in history at Brown University, I attended a lecture at which William G. Bowen, the former president of Princeton, was the featured speaker. Dr. Bowen had come to Brown to promote...

The science wars and the future of the American academic profession.
September 22, 1997... It is all too easy to be perplexed about the state of health of academic institutions in the United States. On the one hand, observers proclaim this to be "the golden age of the American university,"(1) and it would be hard to disagree based on...

The "place" of knowledge in the American academic profession.
September 22, 1997... Today's academic world contains many communities and, in some instances, radically different kinds of institutions with distinct missions and clientele. There is overlap, without which certain other cardinal features of American higher education...