A higher priority for higher education : Higher priority for higher education : two perspectives

Two Perspectives Investing in Higher Education: The Responsibility of the University Kenneth Prewitt Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University Convincing the Public and Governments to Do More: The Case for Higher Education The Honourable Bob Rae, PC, OC Published by the Trustees of the Killam Trusts Izaak Walton Killam Born in 1885 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. [...] The universities are the University of British Columbia, the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, the Montreal Neurological Institute of McGill University, and Dalhousie University. [...] He is a Fellow of the American 6 Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Academy of Political and Social Science, the Russell-Sage Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [...] Both the charm and the frustration with life in the research university are 8 captured in the phrase – “no one is in charge.”. [...] The vaunted freedom of the professoriate – the taken-for-granted “no one is in charge” notion – marks one of the greatest accomplishments of the enlightenment project:.