An important treatise. the first serious attempt since Clark Kerr's 1963 The Uses of the University to analyze the role of the university in modern society...The book serves as a starting point for what is likely to be the most important university debate in the decade ahead.
   --Los Angeles Times Book Review

A reasoned, compassionate and ultimately conservative view of the university's moral foundation and responsibility to society...[Bok] expresses his radical belief in the necessity of academic freedom while noting the strings that are attached to that freedom.. As a rough roadmap of one way universities can proceed...this book is a catalyst and a success.
   --San Francisco Chronicle

Bok "brings to the task a keenly analytical mind and an acute sensitivity to the configurations of institutional power and conflict.
   --New York Times Book Review

Discerning and informative... his book speaks also to the tax-payers, parents and philanthropists who pay for schooling, and the corporations and consumers who have a growing stake in university-based research.
   --Philadelphia Inquirer

Derek Bok presents an extremely well written, thoughtful and cogent analysis of some of the most complex and emotional issues before higher education today.
   --Washington Post Book World

Derek C. Bok is President Emeritus and Three Hundredth Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University.

Read More by Derek Bok:

• Higher Learning
• The State of the Nation: Government and the Quest for a Better Society
• Living with Nuclear Weapons
• The Trouble with Government
• The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology: The First 25 Years 1970-1995