Description
Shapiro clearly and persuasively enunciates his major theme--that universities have a responsibility for performing two important social functions. One is to serve existing society, and the other is to challenge it. -- Charles T. Clotfelter, Duke University This book reflects an effort by one of our most distinguished educational leaders to look beneath the surface of existing controversies and ask deeper questions about the role of the university in a modern liberal democracy. Shapiro's analysis is well tuned to the paradoxical character of the modern university as at once loyal servant and stubborn critic of the society that sustains it. -- Michael McPherson, President, the Spencer Foundation, and former President of Macalaster College
About the Author
Harold T. Shapiro served as President of the University of Michigan (1979-1988) and as President of Princeton University (1988-2001). He is currently Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton. The coeditor of "Universities and Their Leadership" (Princeton), he served as chair of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission from July 1996 to October 2001, and from 1990 to 1992 as a member and vice chair of President George Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Reviews
"Shapiro clearly and persuasively enunciates his major theme-that universities have a responsibility for performing two important social functions. One is to serve existing society, and the other is to challenge it."-Charles T. Clotfelter, Duke University
"This book reflects an effort by one of our most distinguished educational leaders to look beneath the surface of existing controversies and ask deeper questions about the role of the university in a modern liberal democracy. Shapiro's analysis is well tuned to the paradoxical character of the modern university as at once loyal servant and stubborn critic of the society that sustains it."-Michael McPherson, President, the Spencer Foundation, and former President of Macalaster College
Book Information
ISBN 9780691123639
Author Harold T. Shapiro
Format Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 454g