The Modern Land-Grant University

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-55753-677-8
Verlag: Purdue University Press

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

In a time of uncertainty in higher education, this volume provides a helpful overview of the many different types of value public universities bring to American society. It also offers a powerful vision of a future founded on land-grant ideas that will be inspiring to university administrators and trustees, other educational policymakers, and faculty and staff, especially those fortunate enough to be part of land-grant institutions.

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Robert J. Sternberg is president of the University of Wyoming. He is past president of the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences and also of the American Psychological Association. Before coming to Wyoming, he was provost and senior vice president of Oklahoma State University, where this book was conceived. Previously, he was dean of arts and sciences at Tufts University and IBM professor of psychology and education and professor of management at Yale University.