Making Harvard Modern - The Rise of America''s University

Zusatztext Harvard is both the most modern and the most ancient of American universities. Most ancient as a result of its founding date. Most modern by its commitment to being the best at everything it does Informationen zum Autor Morton Keller is Spector Professor of History at Brandeis, and has written extensively on American political and economic institutions. Phyllis Keller was the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences from the 1970s to the 1990s, and is the author of Getting at the Core, an inside look at the creation of Harvard's pioneering core curriculum. Klappentext A candid portrait of America's greatest university and it's dazzling achievements and academic pratfalls through seven decades of dramatic change. Zusammenfassung This is a study of how Harvard transformed itself from a stuffy Boston-Brahmin college to perhaps the world's leading university.

Product details

• Authors: Morton Keller, Morton (Spector Professor of History Keller, Phyllis Keller, Phyllis Keller Keller
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2001
• EAN: 9780195144574
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514457-4
• No. of pages: 608
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics