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The University in Contemporary Society
Author(s) -
Castle Emery N.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.2307/1237817
Subject(s) - competition (biology) , state (computer science) , academic freedom , service (business) , political science , public relations , higher education , land grant , sociology , public administration , business , law , marketing , computer science , ecology , algorithm , biology
The paradox currently facing higher education can be stated in terms of the inherent elements of competition between the autonomous and popular functions of the university. Land‐grant universities and academic agricultural economists are inevitably caught up in this competition and need to come to terms with it. In coming to terms with this conflict, academic people will find it helpful to recognize and admit the social consequences of their mission‐oriented research and service. They also need to recognize internal threats to academic freedom; not all such threats come from irate citizens or the corrupting impact of the establishment. The federal‐state relationship in research is undergoing significant change. Management techniques are “in”; individual freedom in choice of research project and procedure is “out”. The implications of this for the traditional and autonomous functions of the university has been neither widely recognized nor discussed.