On the Future of American Higher Education: A Bibliography of Clark Kerr. Public Administration Series: Bibliography P-1033.

Overview & Synopsis

A bibliography of publications authored, coauthored, or edited by Clark Kerr on the future of American higher education is presented. The specific topics of the publications, which cover 1939-1981, include the following: the failure of academic reform in the United States and Western Europe, changes and challenges ahead for community colleges, coordination in a changing environment, the need for private support of higher education, new public policies for youth, the problem with fair practice, administration of higher education during changing times and conflict and the need for retrenchment and reappraisal, education for employment, education for global perspectives, strategies for education, graduate education in transition, key issues for higher education in the 1980s, predictions for higher education and for Swarthmore College, the relationship between school and work, comparative effectiveness of 12 higher education systems, a biographical memoir of Frederick H. Harbison, the relations between education and work in the People's Republic of China, higher education and the future for the University of California at Santa Cruz, the selective admissions dilemma, the Carnegie Commission's examination of the arts, the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, the trustee facing steady state, the need for more medical schools, the role of education in reconciling freedom and equality, the university and the corporation, evaluation in higher education, the future of state government and higher education relationships, and the role of the private institution in the 1980s. (SW)