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Discussion of Agricultural Economics and the Changing Structure of Higher Education*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

C. Richard Shumway
C. Richard Shumway*
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University
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Professor Coutu is to be commended for synthesizing in a brief paper a great many insights bearing on the management of teaching, research and extension in the next decade. As a discussant, I feel much as a blind man trying to describe the Taj Mahal—I can only reach so high. The future is as yet unknown and any predictions are at best pretty wild guesses. But there are insights gleaned from the past that can guide us in anticipating the future.

In developing his anticipations, Professor Coutu drew upon several important sources of information, including his personal observations on the status of the university, his recent research on organizational structures used by the University of North Carolina system to manage research, and the Carnegie Commission report on higher education.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , July 1976 , pp. 53 - 55
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1976

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Technical Article 12684 of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.

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