Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money and faster promotions leaving humanists behind and bitter. The regular faculty is being jostled by the "un-faculty"-nontenure researchers who do not belong to the faculty senate, but whose projects profoundly affect university planning and financing. "Excessive amounts of expensive equipment have at times been purchased," says Kerr. "There have been some scandals. There will be more...
...Kerr is more concerned about the congressional grumbles that a few multiversities are too privileged, too attractive to industries that have sprung up around them to feed off their intellectual riches...
...name of "balance," the new idea is to spread the research wealth to many campuses. Kerr fears academic pork barreling that might water down all research; he would create a new National Foundation for Higher Education to police federal grants and give more emphasis to such neglected areas as the creative arts...
Scholarly Swarms. Where is the multiversity going? At a time when C. P. Snow estimates that about 80% of the West's pure science research is going on in the U.S., says Kerr, "good scholars tend to swarm together," and university centers are coalescing into "mountain ranges" of higher education. Kerr charts three "great plateaus." The first runs from Boston to Washington, D.C., embraces 46% of the nation's Nobel science winners and 40% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences. Next comes the West Coast university complex with 36% and 20%, followed...
Such groupings consist of multiversities merging with the "knowledge industry" all around, forming a new "Ideopolis." The result is "an extraordinarily productive environment," says Kerr-one that puts the multiversity squarely in the life of society rather than being an inward-looking "house of intellect." The multiversity cannot go back: "Knowledge is wanted, even demanded, by more people than ever before. Knowledge today is for everybody's sake...