| The File: Case Study in Correction (1977-1979) 1981 Edition Contributor(s): Lang, Serge (Editor) |
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ISBN: 038790607X ISBN-13: 9780387906072 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1981 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Quotations - Mathematics - Gardening |
| Dewey: 082 |
| LCCN: 81008951 |
| Physical Information: 1.45" H x 8.25" W x 11" (3.54 lbs) 712 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The File is a collection of documents from a major dispute involving a number of American college professors, mainly mathematicians, statisticians, and sociologists. The controversy was ignited by the mathematician Serge Lang's reaction to a questionnaire, "The 1977 Survey of the American Professoriate", distributed by E. C. Ladd of the University of Connecticut and S. M. Lipset of Stanford. The ensuing discussion - in part acrimonious and personal - soon involved a large group of active and passive participants, and included issues such as survey techniques, evaluation of academic work, public and political honesty, and McCarthyism at Harvard. |