TY - BOOK ID - 135389675 TI - Searching for Utopia PY - 2012 SN - 1283369729 9786613369727 0520951700 9780520951709 9781283369725 9780520270657 0520270657 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Education, Higher KW - Aims and objectives KW - 20th century universities. KW - american universities. KW - clark kerr. KW - college curriculum. KW - college education. KW - college in america. KW - colleges and universities. KW - education history. KW - education theory. KW - educational philosophy. KW - higher and continuing education. KW - higher ed. KW - higher education. KW - history of universities. KW - liberal arts education. KW - research institutions. KW - research universities. KW - undergraduate curriculum. KW - united states history. KW - university curriculum. KW - university of california. KW - university of chicago. KW - university presidents. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135389675 AB - In Searching for Utopia, Hanna Holborn Gray reflects on the nature of the university from the perspective of today's research institutions. In particular, she examines the ideas of former University of California president Clark Kerr as expressed in The Uses of the University, written during the tumultuous 1960s. She contrasts Kerr's vision of the research-driven "multiveristy" with the traditional liberal educational philosophy espoused by Kerr's contemporary, former University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins. Gray's insightful analysis shows that both Kerr, widely considered a realist, and Hutchins, seen as an oppositional idealist, were utopians. She then surveys the liberal arts tradition and the current state of liberal learning in the undergraduate curriculum within research universities. As Gray reflects on major trends and debates since the 1960s, she illuminates the continuum of utopian thinking about higher education over time, revealing how it applies even in today's climate of challenge. ER -