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Dynamics of the contemporary university growth, accretion, and conflict /

"This book is an expanded version of the Clark Kerr Lectures of 2012, delivered by Neil Smelser at the University of California at Berkeley in January and February of that year. The initial exposition is of a theory of change--labeled structural accretion--that has characterized the history of...

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Main Author:	Smelser, Neil J.
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
Series:	Clark Kerr lectures on the role of higher education in society.
Subjects:	Universities and colleges > United States. Universities and colleges > Administration > United States. Educational change > United States. Electronic books.
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