flâneur

The University As We Know It Is Finished - by Nils Gilman

persuasion.community · 3,422 words · saved by 2 readers

That’s a good thing.

Clark Kerr (center), president of the University of California, at Occidental graduation, 1958. (Photo by Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries/Corbis.) When University of California President Clark Kerr delivered the Godkin Lectures at Harvard in 1963, published shortly thereafter as The Uses of the University, he was doing something unusual for an academic administrator: he was offering a sophisticated social theory, and doing so with wit. In these lectures, Kerr coined the term “multiversity” to describe what the postwar American research university had become. In Kerr’s account, the modern…

saved by

related reading