Research University in a Time of Discontent

Jonathan R. Cole is Quetelet Professor of Social Science and provost at Columbia University. Elinor G. Barber is vice provost at Columbia. Stephen R. Graubard is professor of history of Brown University and the editor of Daedalus.

• Contributors: Harvey Brooks, Jonathan R. Cole, Stephen R. Graubard, Adrienne Jamieson, Donald Kennedy, Nannerl O. Keohane, Seymour Martin Lipset, Walter E. Massey, Steven Muller, Rodney W. Nichols, Nelson W. Polsby, Kenneth Prewitt, Frank H.T. Rhodes, William C. Richardson, Robert M. Rosenzweig, John R. Searle, Eugene B. Skolnikoff, Neil J. Smelser, Stephen M. Stigler, Francis X. Sutton

The book's key themes are managerial problems, internal politics, student-related issues and the perennial question of funding and resources. -- Tony Becher London Times This volume contains 19 papers on the current status of the research university particularly in light of diminished federal research support and of the opportunities and perils of the larger, international, educational stage. Resources in Education