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ERIC Number: EJ658067
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-4086
Universal, Entrepreneurial, and Soulless? The New University as a Contested Institution. Essay Review.
Meyer, Heinz-Dieter
Comparative Education Review, v46 n3 p339-47 Aug 2002
Four books examine recent and ongoing changes in the university as an institution, focusing on lifelong learning and increasing numbers of nontraditional students, the entrepreneurial university, and the university in the knowledge society. The new university must balance its roles of serving the new economy while continuing to safeguard and advance culture and knowledge. (SV)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, College Role, Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Needs, Higher Education, Institutional Environment, Lifelong Learning, Relevance (Education), Universities
Publication Type: Book/Product Reviews; Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Note: Review of "Higher Education and Lifelong Learners: International Perspectives on Change," edited by Hans G. Schuetze and Maria Slowey; "The Enterprise University: Power, Governance and Reinvention in Australia," by Simon Marginson and Mark Considine; "Learning from Change: Landmarks in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from 'Change' Magazine, 1969-1999," edited by Deborah DeZure; and "Higher Education: A Worldwide Inventory of Centers and Programs," by Philip G. Altbach and David Engberg.