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Frank, David John was born on October 17, 1963 in Elmhurst, Illinois, United States. Son of Kenneth David and Barbara Joan Frank.
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Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century
( Current conversations on the state of academia contain ...)
Current conversations on the state of academia contain a broad sense of crisis over changes in the body of university knowledge—the decline of literature, the unbridling of ethnic studies, the growth of various applied programs, and so on. Much of the concern revolves around a perceived deterioration of the academic core in which, the thinking goes, the university's teaching and research priorities are increasingly compromised by external financial and political interests. With data on faculty and course composition over the twentieth century for a global sample of universities, this book provides an examination unprecedented in scope and scale of changes in academia. The authors document the changing emphases accorded the branches of learning, the applied and basic divisions, and the disciplinary fields. They find deep transformations, as anticipated, but offer a new explanation for these shifts. Changes in academic focus are less the work of outside interest groups, but instead are cultural maps to the altering features of globally institutionalized understandings of reality.
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David John Frank
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Bachelor, University Chicago, 1985. Master of Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1995. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1995.
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Assistant professor sociology Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995—2002. Associate professor sociology University California, Irvine, since 2002.
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Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century
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Reconstructing the University: Worldwide Shifts in Academia in the 20th Century
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