The Ups and Downs of Building and Sustaining World Class Universities

By Philip G. Altbach. Although German universities provided the model of a research university throughout the nineteenth century the US produced the most advanced research university model for the 20th century. Additionally, the Americans “invented” what Clark Kerr referred to as the 20th century “multiversity” in his 1963 classic, The Uses of the University, that combined research, teaching, and service to society in one institution. Read more...