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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674737717
ISBN-13
9780674737716
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16050419432
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
504 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Empires of Ideas : Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China
Publication Year
2022
Subject
Leadership, Higher, History, Administration / Higher
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Education
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
32.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2021-049001
Reviews
Timely...he makes a powerful argument about what it takes to be a leading university dedicated to the creation of new knowledge...Kirby's book shows how catalytic is the combination of strong nations and universities that advance knowledge and foster critical and creative thinking. Now more, perhaps, than ever., Rather than offering an overview of the university landscape, Kirby adopts the case-based approach employed in the curricula of the Harvard Business School. He traces the history of eight institutions whose trajectories he views as exemplary...There are advantages to Kirby's case study approach. Tracing the history of an individual institution offers the reader a vivid sense of the interplay of historical contingency, policy mandates, and individual actors., William Kirby's new book is unique. I know of nothing else on higher education that resembles it in breadth, scope, and sheer comparative information and analysis. He has plotted the rise and evolution of the modern university in three major societies--Germany, the United States, and China--in a way that illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of each model. Anyone interested in the nature of universities during the past two centuries will want to read this volume., Although Empires of Ideas is nominally about the rise of the research university from its origins in 19th-century Germany though America's global leadership in the 20th, it will probably be what Kirby has to say about China in the 21st that will generate the most interest...Rigorous in its arguments, Empires of Ideas is also well-written., What factors make research universities great--and, conversely, what variables threaten these institutions' eminence? [Kirby's] case studies are highly revealing...[A] fascinating book.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
378.43
Synopsis
The modern university was born in Germany. In the twentieth century, the United States leapfrogged Germany to become the global leader in higher education. Will China challenge its position in the twenty-first? Today American institutions dominate nearly every major ranking of global universities. Yet in historical terms, America's preeminence is relatively new, and there is no reason to assume that US schools will continue to lead the world a century from now. Indeed, America's supremacy in higher education is under great stress, particularly at its public universities. At the same time Chinese universities are on the ascent. Thirty years ago, Chinese institutions were reopening after the catastrophe of the Cultural Revolution; today they are some of the most innovative educational centers in the world. Will China threaten American primacy? Empires of Ideas looks to the past two hundred years for answers, chronicling two revolutions in higher education: the birth of the research university and its integration with the liberal education model. William C. Kirby examines the successes of leading universities--The University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin in Germany; Harvard, Duke, and the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States--to determine how they rose to prominence and what threats they currently face. Kirby draws illuminating comparisons to the trajectories of three Chinese contenders: Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, and the University of Hong Kong, which aim to be world-class institutions that can compete with the best the United States and Europe have to offer. But Chinese institutions also face obstacles. Kirby analyzes the challenges that Chinese academic leaders must confront: reinvesting in undergraduate teaching, developing new models of funding, and navigating a political system that may undermine a true commitment to free inquiry and academic excellence., The United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so. William Kirby examines sources of--and threats to--US higher education supremacy and charts the rise of Chinese competitors. Yet Chinese institutions also face problems, including a state that challenges the commitment to free inquiry.
LC Classification Number
LA728.K54 2022
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