State Administration of Higher Education
1970; Wiley; Volume: 30; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/973221
ISSN1540-6210
Autores Tópico(s)Academic Freedom and Politics
Resumoaccurately origins of American higher education and separating realities from myths. Careful and systematic examination of roles played by accrediting associations is past due.5 No other force has greater impact on university or potential power over it. Students of public administration, because they are sensitive to public affairs and complex organizations, ought to assume leadership in this study. But other social scientists will be required to bring to academic administration broadest possible understanding and problem-solving expertise. The university, not unlike people who populate it, must look to its past as well as to its present to find its identity and purpose. Whatever crisis of moment, university cannot forget its fundamental concern for objective and teaching of that knowledge. Its central process is learning, its doomsday device is truth. It is a servant of its immediate members (students and faculty), but it serves also interests in general society. As a human institution university cannot achieve complete neutrality, nor should it. It must stand for values held by someone, indeed, it stands for many competing values. But its uniqueness as an institution in society is that values, however highly regarded, have not been permitted to bridle and blind, to make university myopic and uncritical. In final analysis its most useful function may be criticism. But effective criticism will respect rule of reason and reject mob intimidation. To articulate such notions may be to idealize university. And yet without aspiring to ideals such as knowledge for its own sake, truth, justice, and the good life, university as we know it would probably not exist.
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