Toward a More Perfect University

Toward a More Perfect University

<div><B>A renowned academic leader identifies the ways America’s great universities <I>should</I> evolve in the decades ahead to maintain their global preeminence and enhance their intellectual stature and social mission as higher education confronts the twenty-first-century developments in technology, humanities, culture, and economics.</B><BR><BR>Jonathan R. Cole, former provost and current University Professor at Columbia University, addresses some of the biggest challenges facing the modern American university:<br>• developing effective admission policies,<BR>• creating the most meaningful examinations,<BR>• dealing with rising costs,<BR>• making undergraduate education central to the university’s mission,<BR>• exploring the role of the humanities,<BR>• facilitating new discoveries and innovation,<BR>• determining the place for professional schools,<BR>• developing the research campuses of the future,<BR>• assessing the role of sports,<BR>• designing leadership and governance,<BR>• and combating intellectual and legal threats to academic freedom.</div>