The Uses of the University
Fifth Edition (The Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen)
by Clark Kerr
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America's university president extraordinaire adds a new chapter and preface to "The Uses of the University," probably the most important book on the modern university ever written. This summa on higher education brings the research university into the new century. The multiversity that Clark Kerr so presciently discovered now finds itself in an ag...
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