Modern Research University Research Articles

Reconsidering Martin Heidegger on the modern university

AbstractMartin Heidegger's 1933 Freiburg University Rector's Address is normally considered in terms of the horrors of its association with National Socialism. This study re‐frames the debate about the Address by situating it in the context of the tradition of philosophical reflection upon the political and historical significance of the modern research university. I highlight aspects of the Address that signified continuity with distinctively liberal presuppositions embedded in foundational ideas of the Humboldtian university. I conclude with reflections on how Heidegger's Address sheds light on the issues of university governance and academic freedom as the contemporary neoliberal university confronts its own challenges.

Scientificity before Scientism: The Invention of Cultural Research in German Studies of Antiquity 1800–1850

This paper examines how scholars of Greek and Roman antiquity in the German-speaking territories in the first half of the nineteenth century define scientificity (Wissenschaftlichkeit). I will argue that antiquity studies in this period of its foundation as a discipline is an instructive case to examine with regard to questions as to how scientific knowledge is established as different from other forms of knowledge, how scientific fields establish relative autonomy from other fields and what forms scientific autonomy can take. Widely recognised as important for the history of the modern research university, the case is not only interesting because it is influential. It is also interesting because the discussions in this period are so different to discussions in the later nineteenth century in the social sciences and the humanities, which have shaped debates about scientificity in sociology and cognate disciplines: We find here a notion of social and cultural research as a scientific endeavour, discussed not primarily with reference to or in defence against the natural sciences, but rather defined against imitative learning and the expectation that research provide moral support for the emerging Germany by idealizing the Greeks. The case highlights moralization as a source of heteronomy in cultural fields in addition to the more widely discussed forces of the market and the influence of the state.

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Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University By Emily J. Levine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 392. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 978-0226341811.

Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University By Emily J. Levine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 392. Cloth $35.00. ISBN: 978-0226341811. - Volume 56 Issue 2

Dewey, Implementation, and Creating a Democratic Civic University

Dewey, Implementation, and Creating a Democratic Civic University

More Is Required of Us: Complicating an Ontology of Experience at the Heart of Community-Based Research

More Is Required of Us: Complicating an Ontology of Experience at the Heart of Community-Based Research

Rethinking the Ph.D. dissertation in botany: Widening the circle.

Rethinking the Ph.D. dissertation in botany: Widening the circle.

Emily J. Levine. Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 384 pp.

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Universities between Inter- and Renationalization: An Introduction

An inherent tension between the global and the national frame of reference defines the modern research university. This seems to be the conflicting diagnosis of two recently published volumes on the matter: In their book on The University and the Global Knowledge Society, David J. Frank and John W. Meyer (2020) link the spectacular rise of the university to its lasting claim to generate “universalized truths” (Frank &amp; Meyer 2020). John Aubrey Douglass and others (2021), in contrast, paint a decidedly different picture. In their volume on Neo-Nationalism and Universities, Douglass and eleven co-authors trace how universities have increasingly come under pressure by a recent wave of neo-nationalism that has challenged the very idea of the global research university right to its core. In presenting these contrasting accounts, the two volumes raise a number of pressing questions for science studies and higher education research more broadly: How do recent developments of neonationalism and populism connect to the longer history of national interests in science as a tool at the hand of the state? How do such nationalist tendencies play into, or counter, the global expansion of the university? And finally, how can we secure the transnational and open idea of a university in times when the specific organizations as well as their cultural core are threatened by national governments? To engage with these questions, this Review Symposium brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars who discuss the two volumes and share their diverse perspectives on Universities between Inter- and Re-Nationalization.

Knowledge Exchange and Modern Universities: Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University by Levine, Emily J.

Knowledge Exchange and Modern Universities: <i>Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University</i> by Levine, Emily J.

Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University

Allies and Rivals: German-American Exchange and the Rise of the Modern Research University

Convergences: Canon and Catholicity by Christopher R. Seitz

Reviewed by: Convergences: Canon and Catholicity by Christopher R. Seitz R. David Nelson Convergences: Canon and Catholicity. By Christopher R. Seitz. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2020. x + 189 pp. The genre of this book is difficult to pin down. In the afterword, Seitz admits the study falls short of pure intellectual history, due mainly to the investment he has made in the movement [End Page 238] of scholarship he surveys (171). Over seven swiftly paced main chapters, the book considers a few seemingly unconnected lines of scholarship, tracing their developments from their origins and revealing surprising parallels and intersections of methodology and insight. Seitz's contribution to the academic study of the Bible, which reorients the question of scripture's meaning to the final form of the two-Testament canon, lies at the point where the roads he follows meet. Readers get a compact guide to scholarship on canonical criticism during the past half-century, albeit in a form that mixes the analysis of ideas, intellectual biography, genealogy, and memoir. Perhaps, then, we might risk a mishmash and call the book academic travel literature. Convergences boasts no central thesis or groundbreaking proposal. Instead, Seitz invites readers to discover how the grand claims of the canonical approach map out on the terrain of the academic study of biblical literature. He writes evocatively of that landscape, describing canonical criticism by recalling his own journey and retracing the steps of fellow trailblazers. In the Anglosphere, students of biblical exegesis know the movement's focus on the Bible's final canonical form mainly through several seminal works by late Yale Old Testament scholar Brevard Childs, Seitz's Doktorvater. Generally, biblical scholarship undertaken within the intellectual culture of the modern research university is historical and critical in outlook. Scholars devote themselves to uncovering the origins and literary developments of biblical texts, in doing so deconstructing traditional religious and theological notions of the Bible's meaning. Childs took the discussion in a new direction, pioneering the canonical-critical approach and breaking new ground in biblical theology. Childs drew upon insights expressed during the first half of the twentieth century by Old Testament scholars such as Hermann Gunkel, Gerhard von Rad, and Martin Noth, even while pushing back against the emphasis on form criticism dominating that era of German biblical scholarship. For Childs and his followers, an exclusive concentration on origins, such as what one typically encounters in the biblical studies guild, misses a crucial segment of the story; namely, that in time communities of faith recognized these texts as sacred [End Page 239] writ, as a literary nexus of revelatory speech uniquely authoritative for belief, theology, worship, and ethical action. Canonical criticism is less interested in how communities of faith sorted out the Bible's contents than in the form the Bible received as a result of that process. As a student of Childs and himself the author of several influential studies in canonical criticism, Seitz is very much an insider to the discussion. Here he tells the tale, in a roundabout fashion, of how the canonical approach materialized. But his real interest is to explore "kindred contributions" (3) emerging in Europe at the same time Childs was at work in the States. The idea for the book originated after Seitz stumbled upon the scholarship of Jesuit theologian Paul Beauchamp. As he immersed himself in Beauchamp's oeuvre, especially the two volumes of L'un et l'autre Testament (one and the other Testament), Seitz discovered astonishing connections between the Jesuit's approach to the unity of the Bible and Childs's attentiveness to canonical form. His engagement with Beauchamp led Seitz to reconsider other texts from twentieth-century European scholarship, including Protestant philosopher Paul Ricoeur's exegesis of Genesis 1 and 2, and Catholic contributions to hermeneutics and biblical theology from the likes of Jean Daniélou and Henri de Lubac. In the conclusion we find a delightful exchange with Benedict XVI's Jesus of Nazareth, showing how canonical exegesis directly informs his reading of the gospels. This book is the yield, then, of an intensive period of discovery and reflection on the part of the author, and likewise an invitation to the reader...

The concept of organizing the work of research universities: prerequisites, tasks, recommendations for Ukraine

Long before the emergence of modern research universities, in society, it became necessary to create educational institutions of an absolutely new type: with the latest approaches and methods to the principles of teaching; with mechanisms for mastering knowledge, modern by that time; with the structure of transferring acquired experience into practical activities. Thus, based on the conclusions of many specialists, scientists, teachers, it were developed and presented general and specific recommendations for the opening and development of such educational institutions, which we now call institutions of higher education of an innovative type, or research universities. The purpose of this article was to study the specifics of the functioning of research institutions by analyzing the features of the organization of their work, the main tasks, key problems and expected results of activities. The main scientific method used in this work was a system-analytical method, using which the main prerequisites for the creation of a research university were determined, as well as a holistic structure of the activities of such an institution of higher education in order to present practical recommendations for opening innovative institutions in Ukraine. The main results obtained in the course of this study can be identified as follows: determination of the characteristics of the “triple helix” model in the work of research universities; characteristics of the basic tasks, goals and problems in the work of such institutions; providing relevant proposals for the development of the concept of creating a research university in Ukraine. The results of this scientific work and the conclusions obtained in the course of the presented study can be used for further practical scientific research on this topic, as well as for: teachers and students of higher education in the specialty history, pedagogy, educational technology.

Reaffirming or Challenging Boundaries? Exploring Hybrid Academic Units in Modern Research University Hierarchies

Reaffirming or Challenging Boundaries? Exploring Hybrid Academic Units in Modern Research University Hierarchies

Organizing core facilities as force multipliers: strategies for research universities.

Force multipliers are attributes of an organization that enable the successful completion of multiple essential missions. Core facilities play a critical role in the research enterprise and can be organized as force multipliers. Conceiving of cores in this way influences their organization, funding, and research impact. To function as a force multiplier for the research enterprise, core facilities need to do more than efficiently provide services for investigators and generate revenue to recover their service costs: they must be aligned with the strategic objectives of a research university. When core facilities are organized in this way, they can facilitate recruitment of faculty and trainees; serve to retain talented faculty; drive, acquire, and maintain cutting-edge research platforms; and promote interaction and collaboration across the institution. Most importantly, cores accelerate the discovery and sharing of knowledge that are the foundation of a modern research university. This idea has been systematically implemented through the Emory Integrated Core Facilities (cores.emory.edu), which include 16 distinct core facilities and the Division of Animal Resources. Force multiplier core facilities can significantly contribute to the many essential missions necessary for the success of the research enterprise at research universities.

Organizing core facilities as force multipliers: strategies for research universities.

Force multipliers are attributes of an organization that enable the successful completion of multiple essential missions. Core facilities play a critical role in the research enterprise and can be organized as force multipliers. Conceiving of cores in this way influences their organization, funding, and research impact. To function as a force multiplier for the research enterprise, core facilities need to do more than efficiently provide services for investigators and generate revenue to recover their service costs: they must be aligned with the strategic objectives of a research university. When core facilities are organized in this way, they can facilitate recruitment of faculty and trainees; serve to retain talented faculty; drive, acquire, and maintain cutting-edge research platforms; and promote interaction and collaboration across the institution. Most importantly, cores accelerate the discovery and sharing of knowledge that are the foundation of a modern research university. This idea has been systematically implemented through the Emory Integrated Core Facilities (cores.emory.edu), which include 16 distinct core facilities and the Division of Animal Resources. Force multiplier core facilities can significantly contribute to the many essential missions necessary for the success of the research enterprise at research universities.

Crisis Among HUMANITIES DISCIPLINES in the Twenty-First Century

In Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age, Reitter and Wellmon have provided a timely account of the nineteenth century debates in the German academy that shaped the structural armature of the modern research university. Discord and discontent are inherent in the institutional culture of the humanities, making humanists exquisitely tuned to see attacks coming at them on all fronts. The argument is illustrated and extended by observations from J. Hillis Miller, an eminent literary critic, and opportunities literary critics have missed in using the Internet to reach citizen-humanists and enrich civic life. I use Plato’s The Crito and Goethe’s Faust as two examples of core humanities texts that have enriched and guided my own life.

Critical Thinking Begins at Home

Using as the starting point experiences gained at the University of Alabama, this paper discusses the context and goals of developing and implementing what Tim Fitzgerald and others have called a critical study of religion program (both undergraduate and graduate) within a modern research university – an initiative that played a key role in our department’s successful reinvention, one that has been taking place over the past twenty years.

Endowment as a Fundraising Tool of the Research University

The article summarizes the arguments within the scientific discussion about the search of alternative sources of research universities funding in the absence of sufficient support from the government. The main objective of the research is to define the possibility of using the endowment as a fundraising tool to attract alternative sources of funding for research universities in Ukraine. The relevance of solving this scientific issue lies in the fact that modern research universities are independent entities, which according to the Bologna Declaration assume the entire load on the future of the state and have to do it at the highest professional level. This can be ensured through a combination of traditional and modern sources of funding. The world experience of successful implementation of the endowment has been presented. The level of knowledge intensity of GDP, which is one of the key indicators that reflects the level of quality of higher education, has been analyzed. The endowment as one of the most effective fundraising tools is poorly developed in Ukraine. This fact has prompted us to research the main provisions of this phenomenon and to define the conditions for its implementation in Ukrainian research-based institutions of higher education by means of the strategic analysis. The conducted SWOT analysis has made it possible to systematize problem areas of the domestic market of educational services in the direction of creating and using the endowment and predicting possible strategies for its development. Since the Research Universities are considered to be the core of creation of intellectual and innovative products and the crucial mover of scientific and technological progress in the country and in the world, they have been chosen as the research object. Keywords: fundraising, endowment, Research University, market of educational services, investment, alternative sources of funding

Archival contingencies: institutional afterlives of an antipodal library

ABSTRACT Ernest Scott (1867–1939), an early history professor at the University of Melbourne, left thirteen thousand books to the university library after his death. This article considers Scott’s books, many of which contain subject-specific newspaper clippings and annotations, as an archive in a state of institutional flux. Scott’s books and clippings give us insight into what historian of the modern research university William Clark calls ‘the material practices of academics’. I examine such practices as they intersect with the kinds of institutional inertia that ‘new institutionalists’ from the fields of sociology and political economy see as scripting human actions and encouraging stasis. The institutional afterlives of Scott’s library focus our attention on mundane, low-stakes, and obsolescent research practices even as they work against the idea of archives as rational and disenchanted. By examining two of Scott’s clipping-filled books, both collections of essays by late nineteenth-century theatre critics, I ask what we can learn from considering provenance, media, and modes of storage and access as part of a collection’s content.