Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Domestically, the "knowledge industry" now accounts for 29 per cent of gross national product according to a recent study, Kerr said. It could become, in the next half-century, "the focal point for national growth," as universities continue to become centers of the "ideopolis"--complexes that include not only school buildings but industry, research institutes, cultural centers...
...Kerr noted that the effect of the university on national life will not be solely, or even most importantly economic. Universities can initiate a "new dimension of service" by replacing decaying central cities as the great cultural centers of the nation, Kerr said. This would be in line with the tradition of public service in American universities which began with the land grant movement and continued to expand into politics and other areas...
...Kerr said that the university will continue to become more involved in the life of society in other ways, as Newman's vision of the university as an "Ivory tower" grows dimmer. "Extension work is really becoming 'life-long learning,'" he noted, and added that television now means "the boundaries of the university are stretched to embrace all of society." In addition, university facilities, such as libraries, and centers for the performing and visual arts, will become more important in the nation's cultural life, Kerr predicted...
Chief among these problems, Kerr said, "is the revival of undergraduate teaching in the university." Students are quietly staging a "counter-revolution" to recent faculty emphasis on research, instigated in part by government expenditures after World...
...treat the individual student is a single unique human being in the mass student body, how to establish a broader range of contact between faculty and student" are problems being pressed by an ever-increasing student population. Kerr also asserted that educational policy must receive more attention, and the undergraduate must, in general, receive the attention now being lavished on the graduate student...