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Clark, Burton Robert was born on September 6, 1921 in Pleasantville, New Jersey, United States.
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Widely acknowledged as one of the great sociologists of higher education, Burton R. Clark has made substantial contributions to virtually every area in the field, thereby defining its study for generations. This collection of essays makes available a lifetime of research, scholarship, and insight from a giant in higher education and reveals how his perspectives, concepts, and research methods evolved over half a century. The result is a compelling look at the career of one of the world’s leaders in higher education research. The volume presents Clark's early research studies underpinning his theories of the "cooling-out" function and organizational saga. It includes his landmark 1973 essay "Development of the Sociology of Higher Education" and other work that reflects his line of inquiry into the American national system. Essays also follow Clark’s shift from organizational studies of American higher education to international comparative analysis of national systems of higher education. These selections reflect the interdisciplinary approach characterizing subsequent work. The book concludes with his most recent research on the important question of how modern universities evolve by developing the infrastructure and tools to bring about meaningful change. At once a monumental achievement and testament to an extraordinary career, On Higher Education is an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and practitioners of higher education.
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Based on field research carried out over a two year period, this book describes processes of transformation that took place over a fifteen year period in five European universities. Five common features identified - described as "organizational pathways of transformation" - are highlighted and used to frame the case-study accounts. These pathways consist of: a strengthened steering core; an extended developmental periphery; a diversified funding base; a stimulated academic heartland; and an entrepreneurial culture. Taken together, these elements help universities overcome the growing imbalance between environmental demands and university capacity to respond that is now occurring in universities internationally. As universities come under greater pressure to change their traditional character and become more innovative and entrepreneurial, the successful implementation of new managerial perspectives is important if they are to succeed. Reconciling these changes with traditional academic values provide the concepts on which the case studies are based.
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A distinguished work by one of America's leading scholars of higher education, Places of Inquiry explores one of the major issues in university education today: the relationship among research, teaching, and study. Based on cross-national research on the university systems of Germany, Britain, France, the United States, and Japan—which was first reported in the edited volume The Research Foundations of Graduate Education (California, 1993)—this book offers in-depth comparative analysis and draws provocative conclusions about the future of the research-teaching-study nexus. With characteristic clarity and vision, Burton R. Clark identifies the main features and limitations of each national system: governmental and industrial dominance in Japan, for example, and England's collegiate form of university. He examines the forces drawing research, teaching, and study apart and those binding them together. Highlighting the fruitful integration of teaching and research in the American graduate school, Clark decries the widely held view that these are antithetical activities. Rather, he demonstrates that research provides a rich basis for instruction and learning. Universities, he maintains, are places of inquiry, and the future lies with institutions firmly grounded in this belief.
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A lifeline for universities meeting the challenges of the 21st century Prominent thinker Burton R. Clark addresses what can be done to ensure universities are well positioned to meet the challenges of the fastmoving world of the 21st century. This signifi- cant new volume draws on case studies of 14 proactive institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Latin America, and Africa in the 21st century. The international coverage underpins a fully developed framework offering insight into ways of initiating and sustaining change in universities. This new conceptual framework shifts attention from transformation to sustainability rooted in a constructed steady state of change and a collegial approach to entrepreneurialism. It contains key elements necessary for universities to adapt successfully to the modern world. Essential reading for university administrators, faculty members, students, and researchers analyzing higher education, and educational policy makers worldwide, this book advocates a highly proactive approach to university change and specifies a new basis for university selfreliance.
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How can we compare national systems of higher education, since their organization varies from country to country? Clark identifies the basic elements common to all such systems, and proceeds to thematic comparisons among a number of countries.
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The factors contributing to the greatness of a first-rank liberal arts college are difficult to analyze. Hidden from view in the mysteries of tradition and institutional aura, the insistent questions remain: How has it been done? Can it still be done? In an intensive analysis of three highly regarded liberal arts colleges, Burton R. Clark uses a developmental approach to formal organization to seek out answers to these questions. The author begins with a presentation of the historical development of three colleges, Antioch, Reed, and Swarthmore. He describes in detail how broad institutional innovations were introduced and made to endure. He then carefully notes the unique events, special conditions, and unusual features that are the components of each institution's fabric. Each of the three narratives is guided by comparative categories, that produce analytical and theoretical insights into organizational development. From the above data Clark develops the concept of the "organizational saga" as the central ingredient in the making of the distinctive college. He explains this concept in terms of organizational role and mission, using the historical narratives of the first section to suggest the bases for the development of sagas. In its empirical findings and conceptual formulations, The Distinctive College, first published in 1970, has played an important role in the analysis and understanding of college culture in contemporary America. It is a study of leadership, as well as an examination of how values are realized in the everyday routine of participants in the life of educational organizations. It remains the premier sociological study of institution building in American higher education.
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The book begins with an analysis of eight centuries of development by Italian universities, a description of the institutions and their major sub-units, and a summary of the forces of fragmentation that persist in the system. Chapter 2 reviews the Italians' efforts to overcome fragmentation and forge a unitary system by bureaucratic means. Clark found that bureaucratic control to be notably incomplete, and, in chapter 3, he analyzes a powerful alternative of control - the professional oligarchy. This power is rooted in the traditional position of the full professor, "the chair." Chairholders build on their local power to dominate national decision-making. Chapter 4 considers the 1960s and early 1970s, periods of crisis and reform. The final chapter places the Italian example in a cross-national analytical framework. Clark reasserts the concept of the guild, in modern academic dress, as the primary operating unit of academic systems. Italy provides a particularly striking example of how such old precepts for the organization of academic work have endured in the twentieth century.
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Clark, Burton Robert was born on September 6, 1921 in Pleasantville, New Jersey, United States.
Bachelor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1954. Doctorate (honorary), University Strathclyde, 1998.
Doctorate (honorary), University Turku, Finland, 2000.
Assistant professor sociology, Stanford University, 1953-1956; research associate, assistant professor education, Harvard University, 1956-1958; associate professor, then professor education and associate research sociologist, then research sociologist, University of California at Berkeley, 1958-1966; professor sociology, Yale University, 1966-1980; department chairman, Yale University, 1969-1972; chairman higher education research group, Yale University, 1973-1980; Allan M. Cartter professor higher education, University of California at Los Angeles, 1980-1991; chairman, professor emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles, 1982-1991.
( How can we compare national systems of higher education...)
(The book begins with an analysis of eight centuries of de...)
( A distinguished work by one of America's leading schola...)
(Based on field research carried out over a two year perio...)
( The factors contributing to the greatness of a first-ra...)
( A lifeline for universities meeting the challenges of t...)
( Widely acknowledged as one of the great sociologists of...)
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Served with Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Fellow British Society for Research in Higher Education, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Educational Research Association (American College Testing award 1979, Division J. Distinguished Research award 1988, Outstanding Book award 1989). Member American Sociological Association, Association Study Higher Education (president 1979-1980, Research Achievement award 1985, Howard Bowen Distinguished Service award 1997), National Academy Education (vice president 1989-1993), Consortium Higher Education Researchers, European Association for Institutional Research (distinguished member).
S, Burton H. and Cornelia (Amole) C. Married Adele Halitsky, August 31, 1949. Children: Philip Neil (deceased), Adrienne.
