ERIC Number: ED400755
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1996-Jun
Pages: 494
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ISBN: ISBN-0-8047-2595-0
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Education in a Research University
Arrow, Kenneth J. Ed.; And Others
This collection of 30 essays on the character, administration, and management of research universities research university emphasizes the perspective of statistics and operations research: The essays are: "A Robust Faculty Planning Model" (Frederick Biedenweg); "Looking Back at Computer Models Employed in the Stanford University Administration" (David S. P. Hopkins); "Faculty Retirement Policies: The Stanford Experience: (Kathryn M. Gilliam and John B. Shoven); "Applying Statistical Concepts and Approaches in Academic Administration" (Stephen E. Fienberg); "Affirmative Action in Graduate Admissions: Stanford University in the 1980's" (Jean H. Fetter); "University and Government, University and Industry: Examining a Changed Environment" (Donald Kennedy); "Student Revolt and Campus Reform in the 1960's" The Case of Stanford's Judicial Charter" (Richard W. Lyman); "The University Fellows Program at Stanford: On Turning Scientists and Scholars into University Statesmen and Stateswomen" (Albert H. Hastorf); "Why a Medical School in a Research University?" (Saul A. Rosenberg); "Education and Technology at Stanford University in the 21st Century" (Patrick Suppes); "Searching for World-Class Educational Standards" (J. Myron Atkin); "A Practitioner's View of Operations Research Ph.D. Education" (Alan Wood and Frederick Biedenweg); "Practicing Operations Research (OR) and Systems Engineering in Workplaces Having Decentralized OR" (Randall E. Fleming); "Teaching a Computer-Intensive Statistics Course" (David A. Butler); "My First Days' Lectures: Past and Present" (Donald L. Bentley); "Courses for Learning the Practice of Operations Research" (B. Curtis Eaves); "Some Lessons Learned About Textbook Writing" (Frederick S. Hillier); "The DNA of Decision Science" (Sam L. Savage); "Evolution of the Required Quantitative Methods Course for M.B.A's at Indiana University (Chris Albright); "The Challenge for Operations Research in American Graduate Business Schools" (Evan L. Porteus); "Operations Research and Statistics in Manufacturing - An Educational Model" (Donald B. Rosenfield); "Graduate Programs in the Mathematical Sciences: The Clemson Model" (Kenneth T. Wallenius); "Analysis and Judgment in Policymaking" (Alexander George); "The Impact of Operations Research and Decision Theory on Teaching and Research in Microeconomics" (Kenneth J. Arrow); "Linear Programming - The Story About How it Began" (George B. Dantzig); "Greenhouse Gas Abatement: Toward a Pareto-Optimality in Integrated Assessments" (Alan S. Manne); "New Directions in Education: Computational Tools for the Molecular Biologist and Biological Sources for the Mathematician" (Samuel Karlin and Volker Brendel); "Phase II - Some Advanced Applications in Statistical Quality Control" (Gary C. McDonald); "The Use of Statistics in Judicial Decisions" (Kenneth E. Scott); and "Communication: Statistical Task and Statistical Tool" (Lincoln E. Moses). Chapters include references. (JLS)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Activism, Affirmative Action, Business Education, College Administration, College Admission, College Faculty, College Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education, Decision Making, Doctoral Programs, Economics Education, Educational History, Government School Relationship, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Medical Schools, Models, Operations Research, Planning, Quality Control, Research Universities, Retirement, School Business Relationship, Statistics, Teacher Retirement, Technological Advancement
Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA 94305-2235 ($60).
Publication Type: Books; Collected Works - General; Opinion Papers
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Policymakers; Practitioners
Language: English
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