Precipice or Crossroads? Where America's Great Public Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway through Their Second Century (Book)
Title: Precipice or Crossroads? Where America's Great Public Universities Stand and Where They Are Going Midway through Their Second Century
Editor: Elizabeth Malson-Huddle
Editor: Daniel Mark Fogel
Abstract: Thirteen top experts in higher education address a broad range of issues central to the question of whether the quality of America's great public universities—and of American life and democracy—can be sustained.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/precipice-or-crossroads-where-americas-great-public-universities-stand-and-where-they-are-going-midway-through-their-second-century/oclc/778244904&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat listing
Secondary URL: http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5614-precipice-or-crossroads.aspx
Secondary URL Description: Publisher's listing
Access Model: Book
Publisher: Albany: State University of New York Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9781438444932
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

Precipice or Crossroads: A Symposium on the Future of Public Research Universities (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Precipice or Crossroads: A Symposium on the Future of Public Research Universities
Author: Daniel Mark Fogel, symposium host
Abstract: 27 speakers and panelists (including NEH chairman James Leach) address a wide variety of issues pertinent to the condition and long-term viability of America's great public research universities, including 1) Changing Institutional and Instructional Models; 2) The Role of Public Research Universities in the Total Educational System (including preK-12 and post-secondary, public and private); 3) Costs, Strategic Resource Investment, Finance, and Governance; 4) Student Opportunity: Tuition, Access, Affordability, and Diversity; and 5) Sustaining Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and the Arts.
Date Range: October 10-12, 2012
Location: University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
Primary URL: http://www.uvm.edu/~ues/precipice-or-crossroads/
Primary URL Description: Site includes a conference overview, participant biographies, written responses to key questions shared by panelists with each other in advance of the meeting, and full-length videos of all public lectures and panel sessions.

Precipice or Crossroads: A Symposium on the Future (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Precipice or Crossroads: A Symposium on the Future
Writer: NA
Director: CSPAN Videographers
Producer: CSPAN
Abstract: Video (with transcripts) broadcast multiple times on CSPAN covering the two closing sessions of the Symposium (3 hours) in their entirety.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.c-span.org/video/?308785-1/public-private-universities
Primary URL Description: Contains video of full sessions (3 hours) of the two closing sessions of the symposium Precipice or Crossroads, along with transcripts and brief speaker bios.
Access Model: Broadcast to CSPAN cable subscribers nationally and archived for viewing on the CSPAN Web site.
Format: Video

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