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Khurana, Rakesh – Princeton University Press, 2010
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Social Status, Intellectual History, Social Change
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Princeton, NJ. – 1987
Statistics classifying American colleges and universities according to their educational functions and missions are included. Rather than creating a hierarchy, this information groups institutions by shared characteristics. Changes in higher education are portrayed, and a continued growth in institutions of higher education is noted. There are…
Descriptors: Art Education, Business Education, Church Related Colleges, Classification
Bok, Derek – 1986
Factors that distinguish the United States higher education system and its performance are considered, with attention to new developments, propsects for change, undergraduate education, and professional schools (especially law, business, and medicine). The way universities change the methods and content of their teaching in response to new…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Instruction, Competition, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2018
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2018, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Natale, Samuel M., Ed.; Fenton, Mark B., Ed. – 1997
The 19 papers in this volume explore value conflicts in all professions. "Worlds in Collision: Value Conflicts in the Training of Professionals" (Samuel M. Natale, William G. O'Neill, Tara M. Madden) introduces the papers and explores what is meant by values, ethics, and conflict. The papers are as follows: "Values and Conflicts in School-Based…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration Education, Competency Based Education, Conflict
Natale, Samuel M., Ed.; Fenton, Mark B., Ed. – 1997
This volume contains 19 papers that explore value conflicts in all professions: "Changing Student Teacher Values with Respect to Business and Industry" (Ralph P. Williams, Elizabeth J. Foster); "Admissions Processes into Canadian Master of Social Work Programs in the 1990s" (John R. Graham, Beatrice Traub-Werner); "Organizational Paradigms and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration Education, Competency Based Education, Conflict
Natale, Samuel M., Ed.; Fenton, Mark B., Ed. – 1997
This volume contains 21 papers that explore value conflicts in all professions: "Ethics and the Development of Work: The Central Maintenance Computer Case" (Harry Hummels); "Too Many Cooks Spoil the Stew--Ethical Preparation of Interdisciplinary Professionals" (Vincent F. Maher); "Value Conflict in 'Competence-Based' Training Incentives" (John…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration Education, Competency Based Education, Conflict
Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, Berkeley, CA. – 1976
A revised landmark Carnegie classification of institutions of higher education, which includes enrollment data, is presented. The classification divides institutions into 6 main categories and a number of subcategories, or 19 categories in all. For doctorate-granting institutions, the following types of institutions are distinguished: research…
Descriptors: Art Education, Business Education, Church Related Colleges, Classification
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1896
Influential historic documents in American education are presented in Chapter I, including legislation, land grants for common schools and universities and for agricultural and mechanical colleges, Bureau of Education role, early discussion on establishing a national university, and state constitutions' education provisions. Also included are the…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Grants, Public Schools, Colleges