
McMaster University, Volume 3: 1957-1987
A Chance for Greatness
James G. Greenlee(Autor*in)
McGill-Queen's University Press
Erscheint ca. am 31. März 2015
Buch
Hardcover
516 Seiten
978-0-7735-4492-5 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
In 1957, McMaster was a small Baptist enclave of traditional higher learning on the western outskirts of Hamilton. Thirty years later it was home to the only nuclear reactor on a Commonwealth campus and had cultivated a thriving engineering program and a world-class medical school. In the third volume of the university's history, James Greenlee illuminates the core ideas, driving ambitions, and occasionally sharp conflicts that marked this startling transition. Greenlee offers a tightly focused study of the planning, people, and events that gave McMaster its distinctive and bold personality. At the heart of these developments stood President Harry Thode, whose master plan forged a research-intensive institution of medium size, but one capable of surpassing the largest institutions in carefully selected fields. Despite dramatic ups and downs, the remarkable persistence of this model is the key to understanding modern McMaster. For readers interested in the problems of mass education in a democratic age, the origins of revolutionary approaches to medical training, or the tangled relations among a university, its community, and the province, this volume, like the McMaster leaders it follows, has a story to tell.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Montreal
Kanada
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
21 b&w photos
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Gewicht
822 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-4492-5 (9780773544925)
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Person
James G. Greenlee is professor emeritus of history at Memorial University of Newfoundland.