In Praise of Weakness: Chartering, the University of the United States, and Dartmouth College

Martin Trow

University of California at Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education from Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley

Abstract: This paper explores the proposition that if American higher education has been broadly successful in serving its society, it is in large part because American colleges and universities, and the system of which they are part, were created under conditions of weakness, both academic and financial.

Keywords: Higher Education; Governance; Finance; Economics; University of the United (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-03-01
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