How Scholars Trumped Teachers: Constancy and Change in University Curriculum, Teaching, and Research, 1890-1990

by Larry Cuban

Examining a century of university history, Larry Cuban tackles the age-old question: What is more important, teaching or research? Using two departments (history and medicine) at Stanford University as a case study, Cuban shows how universities have organizationally and politically subordinated teaching to research for over one hundred years. He explains how university reforms, decade after decade, not only failed to dislodge the primacy of research...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807738654
• ISBN13: 9780807738658
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.3" x 9.3"