Troubled Times for American Higher Education

Clark Kerr is President Emeritus and former Chancellor and Professor Emeritus of Economics and Industrial Relations at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the former Chair of the Carnegie Commission (and later Council) on Higher Education, and the former Chair and Director of a National Commission on Strengthening Presidential Leadership under the auspices of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. He is the author of The Great Transformation in Higher Education, 1960-1980 and Higher Education Cannot Escape History: Issues for the Twenty-first Century, both published by SUNY Press, and The Uses of the University.

• Prologue: A New Age for Higher Education I. Approaching the Twenty-first Century Introduction: Approach with Caution1. Contours of the Future for American Higher Education: Aspects of Mature Development2. Challenges to Be Faced: Advancing the Quality of the Future Performance of American Higher Education3. New Focus on Leadership II. Higher Education and the Economy: An Increasingly Dominant Connection Introduction: From God to Mammon4. How Well Has Higher Education in the United States Met the Test of Service to the Labor Market?5. The Corporation and the University: The American Experience6. The Decline of the American Economy I: Is Education Guilty or Not?7. The Decline of the American Economy II: Who Then Is Guilty, and Are There Solutions? III. The 1990s and Beyond: Some Special Perplexities Introduction: A Mince Pie8. Prospects for the 1990s9. Restoring Quality to Undergraduate EducationAnnex: Mutations in Undergraduate Education in the United States-Early 1970s10. Comment on the Special Problem of Teaching about Ethics11. The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education12. Solving the Selective Admissions Dilemma: A Two-Stage Model for Higher Education13. The New Race to Be Harvard or Berkeley or StanfordEpilogue: On Facing the UnknownIndex