Table of Contents

Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: After the War Chapter 2: Washington, 1983: The National Agenda Chapter 3: The Rules of Change I: Matters of Policy and Politics Chapter 4: The Rules of Change II: Matters of Principle Chapter 5: Facing the Future: The Capacity to Govern Chapter 6: Facing the Future II: The Decade Ahead Chapter 7: The Challenge to Leadership Afterword to the Paperback Edition Index

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A very readable and excellent portrait of today's American research university. -- Clark Kerr, President Emeritus, University of California

About the Author

Robert M. Rosenzweig has spent his career in and around universities and currently writes and consults on university matters. From 1962 to 1982, he held a variety of positions at Stanford University, including Vice President for Public Affairs. He served as president of the Association of American Universities from 1983 to 1993. His books include The Federal Interest in Higher Education and The Research Universities and Their Patrons.

Reviews

Informative observation by a former Stanford administrator and president of the Association of American Universities... recommended for general readers, upper-division undergraduates, faculty, and professionals. Choice Rosenzweig combines unabashed admiration for American research universities, honesty about their real-world shortcomings, keen appreciation for academic quality, and apprehension bordering on congenital pessimism about looming threats to their continued effectiveness. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science