The University An Owner's Manual [Paperback]

A view of America's colleges and universities and how they are run, the challenges they face and the issues that affect their owners - students, faculty, alumni, trustees and others. Among the issues covered are tenure, the admission process in elite institutions and curriculum.An extraoridnary gift for discerning major issues. . . . Mr. Rosovsky tackles the big public issues about postsecondary education todaycurriculum and the dread canonicity, tenure with its potential stagnation, research versus teaching, the admissions process in elite institutionsin set pieces that are unfailingly informative. Superb. . . . Rosovsky has written an important bookprobing, wise, shrewd, fair. . . . Deserves to be widely read. James O. Freeman,