In The Uses of the University, former
University of California president Clark Kerr wrote that though the university
started as a single community, the large American university had become instead
(in 1963) a collection of communities. He also claimed that the liberal arts
student-centered university Newman promoted (in The Idea of a University in 1873) had been replaced by the science-based
research-oriented university described by Flexnor as “The Idea of a Modern
University” (in 1930). Kerr believed all these models had been superseded in
his day by what he called a “multiversity.” But there are still Christian
liberal arts colleges.
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