INTRODUCTION: Respice, Prospice Higher Education A Decennial Review

Frank Rhodes, Cornell University
2010

If “[a] week”, as the late British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once pointedly remarked, “is a long time in politics”, so also, a decade is a long time in higher education. It represents the graduation of two or three generations of students. It reflects the subtle influence of changing scholarly and research priorities and, for all the treasured independence of the academic world,