The idea of a university / edited by David Smith and Anne Karin Langslow.

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley, 1999.

195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

"Based on a series of lectures given at Wolfson College Oxford in 1998"--P. 8

Includes bibliographic references and indexes

Newman's idea of a university : a guide for the contemporary university? / Ian Ker -- Universities c. 1150-c. 1350 / Jean Dunbabin -- The American campus : from colonial seminary to global multiversity / Nannerl O. Keohane -- Linking universities across Europe : principles, practicalities and perspectives / John Sayer -- The universities, government and society / Robert Jackson -- The rise of the new universities in Britain / Clive Booth -- Universities in a knowledge economy : the impact of technology / Alistair MacFarlane -- The changing idea of a university / David Smith -- Concluding questions / Anne Karin Langslow