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Toward an Ethic of Higher Education
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This carefully reasoned book presents an alternative to those current views of higher education that regard it principally either as a leisure activity unconnected with the rest of life or as a special means for the advancement of the economy. Instead, the author asserts, higher education constitutes a primary social means for the forming of selves capable of participating widely and effectively in the affairs of a modern, complex world. What basic policy choices, then, should higher education make? The aim of this book is to locate the grounds on which American institutions of higher education might best decide among some of the major policy alternatives pressed on them by their commitments and the cirucmstances of their civilization, and then to appraise and judge those alternatives.
The author reacts against two primary tendencies in the history of higher education in the United States. The first he terms as "intellectualistic" education that turns colleges and universities into instruments for restricted class of potential connoisseurs of certain rare and marvelous objects; higher education's problem here is to determine the objects best deserving appreciation. The university need not concern itself with providing its students with experiences available in a democratic society, because they will have them in any event.
The second tendency is probably more prevalent today. Production tends to concern us more than refined consumption, and higher education cooperates by devoting itself to forming people who may be useful in a market economy. Education becomes investment, and bits and pieces of an intellectualistic education are more or less acceptable on the periphery - provided there is money for them.
The author recommends the furthering of self-interest of those who do the job of education - the students and faculty - as a principle of choice, and he suggests that taking the self-interest of students and faculty seriously and centrally may throw light on the relation of higher education to the ethical conduct of life.
He further suggests an "opening of the university" beyond its traditional limits toward the exchange of labor, toward the provision of exercises outside the system of exchange, toward the performance of the arts, toward the absorption or integration of politics within university practice and tradition, and, most important, toward an integration of ethics into policy and performance. The author sees persons disposed to ethical values as more valuable to society than either cultured minds or technological and business whizzes.
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Title Toward an ethic of higher education
Author Mortimer Raymond Kadish
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1991
ISBN 0804718830, 9780804718837
Length 205 pages
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Science, Technology, and Reparations
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Most people know something about Werner von Braun and the German rocket scientists and engineers whom the Americans brought to the United States after the Second World War. What virtually no one seems to know is that the plan under which they were brought -- Project paperclip -- was but once aspect of a much more comprehensive and systematic program of "intellectual reparations."
This program began in late 1944 with the limited aim of exploiting German scientific and technical know-how in order to shorten the war with Japan. As Allied armies swept across western Germany, teams of dozens of American experts -- drawn from government agencies, industrial and trade associations, and the universities -- visited hundreds of targeted German research institutions, technical schools, and industrial firms. They interviewed personnel, examined processes and products, took photographs and samples, and demanded drawings, plans, blueprints, research reports, and documents of all kinds.
But the limited, war-related aims they began with quickly yielded to the tempting opportunities for industrial and technological plunder in virtually every area of German expertise, including wind tunnels, tape recorders, synthetic fuels and rubber, color film, textiles, machine tools, heavy equipment, ceramics, optical glass, dyes, and electron microscopes. Ostensibly, the information gathered was to be made, in Secretary of State George C. Marshall's words, "available to the rest of the world." In practice, however, much of it was transferred by the scientific consultants and document-screeners directly to their own firms and for their own purposes.
This story has never before been told, and the author's meticulous but highly readable account is based on over ten years of research in German and American public and private archives, many of them previously unused.
One of the most striking revelations in the books is the vast scale of the "intellectual reparations" program. At the Moscow meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in 1947, V.M. Molotov, the Soviet Union's Minister of Foreign Affairs, charged that the United States and Great Britain had taken over $10 billion in reparations from Germany in the form of patents and other technical knowledge. Secretary of State Marshall angrily denied the charge, but no precise evaluation was ever issued by the U. S. government. On the basis of his research, the author concludes that the $10 billion figure dismissed by State Department functionaries as "fantastic" is probably not far from the mark.
General Lucius D. Clay, the American Military Governor in Germany, eventually succeeded in having the program shut down in the interests of German economic recovery, but he failed in his efforts to have an evaluation made in monetary terms to establish a credit to Germany's reparations account. Nevertheless, the popular American belief that the United States took no reparations from Germany needs to be drastically modified.
The exploitation program had a negative effect on the early resumption of postwar German research and economic recovery. In the long run, however, the American exploitation program furthered an extensive network of American-German scientific, business, and industrial collaboration, and it contributed to the American climate of opinion that insured West Germany's participation in the Marshall Plan. Throughout the book, the author has used case studies to illustrate the program -- its nature, extent, and impact upon the Germans and Americans.
John Gimbel is Professor of History Emeritus at Humboldt State University, California.
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Title Science, technology, and reparations: exploitation and plunder in postwar Germany
Author John Gimbel
Edition illustrated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1990
ISBN 0804717613, 9780804717618
Length 280 pages
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STANFORD HORIZONS
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Good fortune has kept me in the midst of a heady stream of youth for most of my life. Eager, enthusiastic, and light-hearted, but fundamentally ambitious, courageous, and confident of their control of the future, they have passed through the portals of Stanford into the horizon. To give some suggestions while they were on the way, or to offer them a final word, has been my privilege. Some of them have asked that they might read what they have heard me say.
The nation and the University have lived through a number of trying periods in the twenty years of my responsibility as President of Stanford. Some of these talks, while perhaps appropriate chiefly to the occasions on which they were delivered, seem worth recording, since crises and the need for individual decision will inevitably recur.
Once in a while one finds that some phrase or idea sticks in the mind of a boy and girl and is of use. To give an address is to broadcast into the blue. It becomes helpful only when someone is on the receiving end. If that someone is ear-minded, as most university students are, some effect may be produced; but since all of those who have been exposed to education have become likewise eye-minded, the present little volume is offered in the hope that even some students grown older will put on their lenses and hark back to those college days of exuberance,
romance, ambitions, and ideals.
RAY LYMAN WILBUR
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA
MAY 22, 1936
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Title Stanford horizons: "Where the red roofs rim the blue", selected addresses, 1916-1936
Author Ray Lyman Wilbur
Publisher Stanford university press, 1936
A German Community Under American Occupation
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This is the first comprehensive attempt to study the impact of American occupation upon a German community. By examining documentary sources and personal papers from the occupation period and interviewing a great many Germans and Americans directly associated with the military and civil administration of the town of Marburg, the author has written an illuminating case study of the occupation as a whole.
The study discloses several significant paradoxes: the effect of some military government policies necessarily doomed other military government policies to failure; military government encouraged decentralization and practiced centralization; the American democratization program encouraged and produced institutions and agencies that Germans used to undermine basic occupation policies; undemocratic methods were often used to promote a democratic ideal.
Perhaps the most important failure of the occupation authorities was their refusal to identify themselves with the German liberal and moderate forces that might have aided in the reconstruction of the kind of postwar Germany that the Americans sought to establish. These forces had an important stake in the results of the occupation, but no concessions or rewards were offered to obtain their active support. Instead, the occupation authorities chose to remain positively neutral during the struggle for power and status that liberals and moderates engaged in against leftists and Communists on the one hand, and conservatives, nationalists, and ex-Nazis on the other.
The author states that "The effect of American efforts was to disillusion the occupation's most loyal supporters and to bring forth people who disagreed with Americans about the extent and intent of denazification...; people who disagree with Americans about municipal and county government codes, the nature of the civil service, the structure and purpose of education, the proper political party organization and proper electoral procedures, the extent of industrial disarmament, the value of grass-roots political activities, and many other things."
Two striking conclusions emerge from the study. One is that American occupation policies fundamentally contradicted each other and thus were impossible to apply with any degree of success. The other is that in failing to achieve their stated objectives, Americans restored German self-respect at the expense of American policy and prestige.
Mr. Gimbel is Assistant Professor of History at Humbolt State College, California.
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A German community under American occupation: Marburg, 1945-52
John Gimbel
ISBN 0804700613, 9780804700610
259 pages
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Recent Occupational Trends in American Labor
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Designed as a supplement to bring up to date their much-consulted work Occupational Trends in the United States, the present small volume by the same two authors is a fact paced and significant study. It explores employment trends of the years 1930 through 1944 as revealed by the 1940 census and other statistical sources.
Presenting first and overall characterization of the labor force of 1940 and a contrast with the 1930 employment scene, the authors succinctly summarize the effect of a major depression on more than 200 occupational groups. They also undertake a valuable consideration of employment during the early war years.
The future prospects for workers and the possibilities of full employment are weighed and postwar occupational movements are predicted in one timely chapter.
Competent and compact, Anderson and Davidson's new work is not only a necessary handbook to tie in closely with their earlier publication, but a much-needed, practical reference study of employment during the nation's dramatic years of depression and war.
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Recent occupational trends in American labor: a supplement...
Hobson Dewey Anderson, Percy Erwin Davidson
Stanford University Press, 1945
133 pages
Public Relations for Colleges and Universities : A Manual of Practical Procedure
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This book was originally published in 1946.
Many colleges and universities are becoming intensely concerned with their future prospects and realistically aware that their former casual, unorganized, and somewhat ineffective methods of making public contacts are inadequate. The necessity, not only for the acquisition of funds but also for the justification of the institution itself and its objectives, demands an effective, well-planned public relations program.
This book presents a sound and flexible public relations procedure for the establishment of a closer relationship between institutions of higher learning and the rest of the world.
Christopher Edgar Persons was Vice-President of McCann-Erickson, Inc. and a special consultant on public relations to Western educational institutions when this book was published.
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Title Public Relations for Colleges and Universities
Author: Christopher Edgar Persons
Publisher Stanford University Press Copyright 1946
ISBN 080473240X, 9780804732406
Planning Models for Colleges and Universities
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Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience at Stanford University as well as the work of others, this first systematic approach to fiscal and human resource planning in colleges and universities shows how transition models can and should become an integral part of the planning process.
The authors first discuss the uses and abuses of planning models in general and the principles and methodologies for developing such models. They then describe many specific models that have proved to be useful at Stanford and elsewhere in solving immediate problems and establishing long-term goals. These models cover such diverse problems as medium- and long-range financial forecasting; estimating resource requirements and the variable costs of programs; long-run financial equilibrium and the transition to equilibrium; faculty appointment, promotion, and retirement policies; predicting student enrollments; and applying value judgments to financial alternatives.
The final chapter discusses the applicability of the Stanford-based planning models to other schools.
David S.P. Hopkins is Director of the Office of Analysis and Planning at the Stanford University Medical School, and William F. Massy is Vice President of Business and Finance and Professor of Business Administration at Stanford University.
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Title Planning models for colleges and universities
Authors David S. Hopkins, William F. Massy
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1981
ISBN 0804710236, 9780804710237
Length 544 pages
Contents
Modeling and the Stanford Experience
1
The Evolution of Planning Models at Stanford University
24
Planning Models in Theory and Practice
71
Budget Projection Models
131
Production and Cost Models
186
Modeling for Financial Equilibrium
225
Financial Planning Under Uncertainty
266
Further Applications of University Planning Models
329
8 Means and Standard Deviations of SteadyState Number
380
2 Optional Constraints in TRADES
394
4 Primary Planning Variables Used in Stanford Study
420
1 A Development Strategy for Financial Planning Models 457
Table A4 1 Initial Allocation Fractions A and A
490
Table A10 1 Illustrative Data for the Decision Calculus Model
509
2 Historical Budget Surpluses and Deficits at Stanford
30
3 LongRun Financial Equilibrium Model Early
40
Constrained Value Optimization
384
The Pilot Experiment at Stanford
419
Applying the Planning Models at Other Schools
433
Other Modeling Projects at Stanford
467
Value Maximization Subject to Constraints
475
A Budget Model for NeedBased Financial Aid Programs
486
A Brief Technical Description of the Stanford Investment
492
Computer Printout from a Sample Session with the Univer
499
A Sample Session with the Staff Affirmative Action Planning
506
The University of Northern California
517
BIBLIOGRAPHY
525
GLOSSARYINDEX
535
2 LongRange Financial Forecast for Stanford University
34
4 Amount of Budget Reduction and Payout Rate
42
5 Income Expenditures and Deficit During Stanford Univer
48
7 Chronology of Transition Model Calculations
57
9 Changes in Policy Assumptions for Tuition Salaries
65
1 Examples of College and University Planning Variables
76
2 Classification of Inputs and Outputs for Colleges
113
3 Types of Cost Measures
124
1 Expenditure Forecast Summary by Object of Expenditure
134
5 Physical Variables Associated with Budget Line Items
143
11 StepDown Schedule of Indirect Costs at Stanford
162
13 Annual Growth Rates of Key Economic Quantities
182
1 Degree Winners and Dropouts by Entry Status and Enroll
197
6 Ratios of Instructional Faculty FTE to Students
210
1 Effects of the Enrichment Factor the Payout Rate and
236
2 Elasticities of Selected Equilibrium Solutions with Respect
252
Payout
271
4 Illustrative Dispersions Correlations and Serial Correla
292
7 Sensitivity Analysis for and ta Based on the Analytical 305
1 Fractional Flows of Faculty 196672 School of Human
345
Percent Absolute
358
5 Transition to LongRun Financial Equilibrium Model
47
7 Annual Income and Expenditures for Stanford University
55
1 Production Possibility Frontier and Indifference Curves
83
3 Marginal Values Revenues and Costs
92
4 Industry SupplyandDemand Relations for Nonprofit
106
1 Sources of Funds for a Constant Population of Financial
156
3 The RiskReturn Tradeoff Based on a 47Year History
169
5 An Illustration of Budget Disequilibrium
180
1 An Illustration of the Production Function of a Cost
193
4 Numerical Solution to the EightCohort Model
202
6 An Illustration of the Allocation and Appointment
214
1 Paradigm for ExtensiveForm Dynamic Planning
230
3 Examples of Tradeoffs Involving Rates in FirstOrder
250
1 Sample Probability Distributions for Real Total Return 268
3 An Illustrative Planning and Budgeting Cycle for Year
279
5 Flowchart for FirstOrder Smoothing Process 296
6 Probability That Downward Adjustments Are More Than 308
8 Probabilities That Endowment Payout P and Payout
316
12 The Effect of LookAhead in Dynamic Control
322
1 TwoState Flow Diagram of a Faculty Tenure System 335
4 Flow Diagram for Nontenured Faculty in 15State Model
346
7 TenYear Faculty Projections for a 10 Reduction in 350
10 The Cohort Flow Model 361
12 Staff Cohort Persistence at Stanford 375
1 Example of a TRADES Working Configuration
389
2 TRADES Forecast Mode Display for a ThreeYear Plan
396
An Illustra
403
9 Illustration of a TRADES Structured Search Option
411
12 Illustration of the Weighted IdealPoint Preference Model
419
13 Flow Chart for the Decision Calculus Program
429
1 Schematic Diagram for Hierarchical TRADES
448
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